[arch-general] Gnome 3, a bug?

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:08:50PM +0200, Christoph Glaubitz wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2011 16:37:47 +0100
> Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> 
> > This is such a basic issue that I refuse to believe I'm the first to
> > bump into this behaviour.  Hence I ask here first for some help.
> > 
> > I recently upgraded to Gnome3 and switching between windows with
> > alt+tab is rather broken for me.  Here's why I say that:
> > 
> > 1. I make sure I have two non-overlapping windows on the screen at the
> >    same time.
> > 2. I position the mouse pointer in one of the window.
> > 3. At this point I can't switch focus to the other window with
> >    alt+tab.
> > 
> > Basically I have two options:
> > 
> > 1. Move the mouse pointer so that it's not in any window, then I can
> >    use alt+tab.
> > 2. Move the mouse to switch focus.
> > 
> > Neither of these is very convenient.
> > 
> > Does anyone recognise this?
> > 
> > /M
> > 
> 
> Are you using focus follow mouse?
> $ gconftool-2 -g /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode
> sloppy

Indeed I was.

> If you switch this to "click", you are able to switch via alt+tab or
> alt+^, again.
> But it's really hard to get used to "click" after more than a decade of
> using sloppy :(

Yes, changing to click sorted me out, but as you say it's hard to get
used to.  Even harder to get used to is the clunky WM ;-)

> Seems to be a known upstream bug for quite a long timenow:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597190
> and there is also a new dup for this bug
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647232
> 
> btw. Seems not to be a gnome3 problem only, since Ubuntu 11.04 with
> unity has the same problem if you use "sloppy".

That's disappointing; that it has been know for long and still is
unfixed.

/M

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