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Bug 634173 - Hitting Alt-tab twice doesn't always take you back to the original window
Hitting Alt-tab twice doesn't always take you back to the original window
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 661156
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-11-06 15:53 UTC by Federico Mena Quintero
Modified: 2013-03-04 14:43 UTC
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Description Federico Mena Quintero 2010-11-06 15:53:40 UTC 
1. Open an application that can open multiple windows (e.g. gnome-terminal or emacs).

2. Open a second window for that application.

3. Go to another workspace.

4. Launch a different application.

5. Go back to the original workspace.  Focus the second window from the first application.

6. Hit Alt-tab.  You should be taken to the second application from (4).

7. Hit Alt-tab again.

While you'd expect to be taken back to the original window from (5), you are instead taken to the *first* window from (1).

That is, Alt-tab is not symmetrical if an app has more than one window and you first Alt-tab to a window that is not in the same workspace.
Comment 1 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2010-11-06 20:33:05 UTC 
Federico, I think this is a duplicate of my old bug 621287. Can you confirm it's the case?
Comment 2 Florian Müllner 2013-03-04 14:43:43 UTC 
This should be fixed as side-effect of bug 661156.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 661156 ***