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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay
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