Gnome 3 keeps adding VLC in Alt+Tab
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Hi,
I have these two settings on: https:/
I would thus expect that Alt+Tab would only show apps from the current workspace. However, I have VLC on another workspace, and Gnome 3 always show VLC as first app in Alt+Tab. To remove the app, I have to go to VLC’s workspace, and focus its window. But then when VLC will switch song, it will go again as first app in Gnome 3’s Alt+Tab shortcut in ALL workspace.
This is my number 1 issue in Gnome 3 that just makes me crazy: as VLC is shown as first app when I do Alt+Tab and that the current app is thus shwn second, doing Alt+tab quickly leaves the current app as current. Because VLC was shown first and the current app second, Alt+Tab goes to the second element, that is, the current one. This basically makes Alt+Tab completely useless for me, and I have to press the super key each time to switch windows. This is extremely annoying.
Of course, I could just type Alt+tab+tab to switch to the third app, expect that (1) this is extremely counter-intuitive, and (2) depending on whether VLC is adding this “all workspace Alt+Tab notification” or not, the semantics is not the same.
Note that I have prevented VLC to display any notification. This prevents VLC from adding overlay notification, but does not prevent VLC to do this Alt+Tab notification.
This is incredibly annoying. As the semantics of “/org/gnome/
Attachment: a screenshot of my screen when I do the Alt+Tab. As the print-screen button in Gnome 3 frustratingly does not work when pressing Alt+Tab, I took it with my phone. In this case, I have Firefox opened as well as a console in this workspace, and VLC is in another workspace. I have a lot of other apps in other workspaces too, but they do not trigger this “Alt+Tab notification”.
Regards,
Martin.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.28.4-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-1073-oem x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.11
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Mar 1 11:51:56 2020
DisplayManager: gdm3
DistributionCha
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GsettingsChanges:
b'org.gnome.shell' b'enable-
b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' redacted by apport
b'org.
b'org.
b'org.
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-08-28 (185 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20180608-09:38
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Thank you for your bug report, What version of VLC do you use? (snap? deb?)
Cold you include a 'journalctl -b 0' log of a session which triggered the issue?
Could you also try with a new user profile to see if that's an issue there?