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Bug 704565 - alt+tab in classic mode does not sort minimized windows correctly
alt+tab in classic mode does not sort minimized windows correctly
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 705177
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: app-switcher
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
classic
: 709822 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-07-19 15:36 UTC by Dan Winship
Modified: 2015-01-16 21:48 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Revert "display: Don't put minimized windows at the back of alt-tab" (1.46 KB, patch)
2013-09-23 14:28 UTC, Dan Winship
needs-work Details | Review
display: don't treat fullscreen as minimized for purposes of Alt+Tab (1.74 KB, patch)
2013-09-23 14:28 UTC, Dan Winship
needs-work Details | Review

Description Dan Winship 2013-07-19 15:36:50 UTC
In metacity, alt+tab always sorts minimized windows to the end of the list.

In mutter, this behavior was removed as a side effect of fixing bug 693991. This makes alt+tab in gnome-shell classic mode behave confusingly non-classically.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2013-08-17 15:39:32 UTC
florian, could you have a look at this ?
Comment 2 Florian Müllner 2013-08-17 15:54:59 UTC
To be honest, I'm not sure it's a bug we'd want to fix. The change was not accidental, but rather adapting to the new behavior of auto-minimizing fullscreen windows when they loose focus (in which case it is quite confusing when a simple alt-tab doesn't bring them back). We don't change the auto-minimization in classic mode, so IMHO the logic for the change is still valid ...
Comment 3 Dan Winship 2013-08-17 16:58:19 UTC
Yes, the behavior with fullscreen windows makes sense for fullscreen windows. But the behavior with minimized windows does not make sense for minimized windows. So... make them separate states?
Comment 4 Dan Winship 2013-09-23 14:28:33 UTC
Created attachment 255569 [details] [review]
Revert "display: Don't put minimized windows at the back of alt-tab"

This reverts commit 7e61ef09369a6564ad51d9d654db0e3d104fe0fc.
Comment 5 Dan Winship 2013-09-23 14:28:36 UTC
Created attachment 255570 [details] [review]
display: don't treat fullscreen as minimized for purposes of Alt+Tab

The shell automatically minimizes fullscreen windows when they are in
the background, but they should still keep their normal position in
the app/window switcher.
Comment 6 Florian Müllner 2013-10-10 14:06:47 UTC
*** Bug 709822 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Dan Winship 2013-11-01 20:55:39 UTC
Could someone look at the patch? I continue to bump up against this multiple times a day.

In case it wasn't clear, the patch preserves the current behavior for fullscreen windows, and returns to the old behavior only for actually-minimized windows.
Comment 8 André Klapper 2015-01-16 21:33:41 UTC
Comment on attachment 255569 [details] [review]
Revert "display: Don't put minimized windows at the back of alt-tab"

/src/core/ does not exist anymore in https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/src

Hence setting 'needs-rework' as patch does not apply cleanly.
Comment 9 André Klapper 2015-01-16 21:34:38 UTC
Comment on attachment 255570 [details] [review]
display: don't treat fullscreen as minimized for purposes of Alt+Tab

/src/core/ does not exist anymore in
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/src

Hence setting 'needs-rework' as patch does not apply cleanly.
Comment 10 Dan Winship 2015-01-16 21:48:47 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> (From update of attachment 255569 [details] [review])
> /src/core/ does not exist anymore in
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/src

Oops, the patches were against mutter. I guess I wasn't sure whose fault it was when I first filed the bug, and forgot to move it after I figured it out and wrote the patches.

But anyway, it looks like the entire "minimize background fullscreen windows" behavior was reverted in 3.14, including reverting the behavior of minimized windows in alt-tab back to how it used to be.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 705177 ***