Wrong Alt+Tab order using Shift Switcher
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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compiz (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I stopped using Unity's default Alt+Tab switcher due to its mandatory windows grouping, and changed to compiz's Shift Switcher, which looks great and does not group windows.
But Shift Switcher has a very annoying bug about Alt+Tab ordering - I cannot re-order windows by using Alt-Tab, and the order it choses is unpredictable.
Its hard to explain, but Ill try an example: 10 open windows, I'm on Firefox, next to it (in alt+tab order) are xchat, eclipse, terminal, nautilus, gedit.
Alt+tab,
Now I expect that a quick Alt+Tab would open Firefox (it was the last window). But instead it opens... Nautilus! And I have to Alt+tab,tab... (or Shift+Alt+
And sometimes the order changes randomly, making the 2nd or 3rd window in Alt+Tab order be a window that I don't use for a long time. And I also noticed that by clicking on the windows on Unity's Launcher allows me to change order, so I could click Firefox, click Terminal, and then these would be together in Alt+Tab.
Shoudn't Alt+Tab order be based on which windows had last focus? Shouldn't I be able to "re-order" the stack by using Alt+tab and releasing in the wanted windows in a given order so the next alt+tab will have that order? And why this order sometimes change unpredictably?
Using Ubuntu 12.04 x64 desktop, fully updated with all repos including "-proposed"
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.