On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 05:01:43PM +0100, Aljosha Papsch 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 > > It's a design pattern of the GNOME Shell. Switching between windows > work application based, not window based. Which means, if a > Webbrowser is opened and two Shells, you won't switch between the > shells but between Firefox and the last focused shell. You can get > back the old behavior, though. Just install > gnome-shell-extensions-git from AUR. No, you misunderstand me. No matter what two windows I have, whether they are two different applications or not, I still see the same behaviour. I also see the same behaviour when switching between two windows of the same application (using alt+` on my machine). /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. -- Alan Kay
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