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Bug 309481 - Alt+tab strokes should alter between no more than two windows
Alt+tab strokes should alter between no more than two windows
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 338660
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
: 305259 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-07-04 20:59 UTC by Tuomas Salo
Modified: 2006-04-15 23:55 UTC
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Description Tuomas Salo 2005-07-04 20:59:48 UTC
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu Hoary / Breezy-20050703

I'd expect a single alt+tab stroke to pop up the previous window I was using.
Thus, consequential alt+tab strokes (releasing alt between them) should alter
between no more than two windows.

However, this isn't always the case. Suppose I have three windows, from topmost
to bottom: "Pick a Font",  "Font Preferences", and a gnome-terminal. The upper
two windows belong to the gnome-font-properties process.

The first alt+tab stroke activates the "Font Preferences" window but leaves the
"Pick a Font" window on top of it. The second stroke pops up the gnome-terminal.
The third stroke re-activates the "Font Preferences" window, putting the
terminal to the back but leaving the "Pick a Font" window on top of it - but
inactive. So, there seems to be *no way* of re-activating the "Pick a Font"
window with the keyboard. This is very confusing and possibly a show-stopper for
someone not using a mouse.

Related to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142195 and supposedly many
others.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2005-07-04 23:06:37 UTC
Probably "pick a font" should be focused whenever you alt+tab to "font
preferences", since "pick a font" is the active transient. However, this means
that "pick a font" is effectively modal from the keyboard (you can't get to
"Font Preferences"). One solution is to have a "cycle among windows in a group" key.



Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2005-07-05 17:20:58 UTC
Related to bug 305259 (comments 5 and 6 in particular); the "cycle among windows
in a group" key is bug 94682.  Should we consider this a duplicate of 94682 then?
Comment 3 Elijah Newren 2005-10-01 20:58:16 UTC
*** Bug 305259 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) 2006-04-06 05:21:32 UTC
No, if bug 94682 was fixed, this bug would still be occurring.
Comment 5 Elijah Newren 2006-04-15 23:55:24 UTC
I'm consolidating this and other issues into bug 338660 (for which I'd appreciate usability feedback, mpt).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 338660 ***