GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 781910
In overview, you have to first press DOWN ARROW to get focus on windows in overview (keyboard driven)
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:18:09 UTC
1. So, for example you have 4 apps opened in the gnome shell. 2. You press Super key to enter overview. 3. Lets say you are a keyboard man, and want to switch to another app. 4. So in overview there is this BLUE framework which indicates focus on the app in overview. 5. So you want to enter lets say the app right from that app, so you press right arrow and enter. 6. Nothing happens, because everytime you enter overview, it only detects DOWN ARROW. Only then you can move through windows with other arrows too. So, everytime you enter overview, you have to first press DOWN ARROW in order to get focus on windows and only then you can go up, right left and so on. And that is really annoying. I use updated Tumbleweed.
I can confirm this bug on Arch running shell 3.25.4.
Downstream Ubuntu report on https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1724101 , that's still an issue in 3.26.1
Looks like this problem reproduces when the mouse pointer happened to not hover one of the Overview's window miniatures? Suggestion for fix: (1) When entering the Overview, [temporarily] displace the mouse to the foreground window's miniature's middle. (If no window is focused - maybe they are all minimized - then highlight the Overview's top-left miniature.) (2) When arrow-keys moves the blue border, move the mouse pointer to the newly "bordered" window's miniature's middle. Optional: (3) When exiting Overview, return the mouse to the position it had before (1).
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