Alt +esc doesn't change focus when an app is set "Always on Top"

[Bhaumik Tripathi]

After I put Gnome Clock to always on top by `Alt`+`Space`,then whenever I did `Alt`+`Esc` , it changed the blue box from window to window but does not brought anyone of them to focus.

For example, I opened Firefox through the shortcut, It brought it on second top(after clock) position but didn't change the focus till I deliberately click somewhere in the browser from mouse to bring it back to focus.

Is this a normal behavior of Ubuntu, and if so how can I change it so that the shortcut would also change the focus to the window and not only bring it on the top.

On some inspection and asking the community it was found that the bug is reproducible in Ubuntu gnome but not in fedora, so it seems like having some problem with this O.S. in particular.

My "lsb_release -rd" produces following:
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Release: 22.04
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DisplayManager: gdm3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-07-06 (283 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20230223)
Package: gnome-shell 42.9-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-27.28~22.04.1-generic 6.5.13
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 42.9-0ubuntu7
Tags: jammy wayland-session third-party-packages
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-27-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

[Bhaumik Tripathi (bhaumiktri)]

This is my first bug report so in case I am missing something, then please ask for the required information.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

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[Bhaumik Tripathi (bhaumiktri)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thanks for the bug report. It seems this was fixed but only in Ubuntu 23.04 and later. Still, it's a duplicate of bug 1997099.

[Bhaumik Tripathi (bhaumiktri)]

Thanks for mentioning, This means that ALt+Esc and Alt+tab follows the same internal working.I was not aware of this.