alt-tab switcher some times shows in the background instead of on top

[Guruprasad]

The alt-tab switcher menu some times shows up in the background of all the windows making it impossible to view it. The functionality of switching works fine though

[Guruprasad (lgp171188)]

Related to bug #848115. Even dash appears in the background due to desktop getting focus even when there are active unminimized windows on top

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

Thank you for taking time in filing the bug to make ubuntu better.
can you please attach a screenshot of bug or vedio.here i am not be able to reproduce this bug
thankx.

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

i think that bug you mentioned in duplicate of the bug.marking duplicate.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[yuval (hyuvii)]

I can recreate this bug thusly:

1. Right-Click on a folder, and click properties.
2. press alt-tab.

From then on, alt-tab will appear in the background but keep working, as described in the bug report.

[Vladimir Rutsky (rutsky-vladimir)]

yuval, which Ubuntu version do you use?

[Vladimir Rutsky (rutsky)]

yuval, I cannot reproduce this bug by following steps you provided on Ubuntu 14.04.

[Matthew Gregory Davis (mgd1981)]

I just had this happen to me after un-docking and then re-docking my laptop. When docked, it's connected to two monitors (laptop screen not used), and when not docked, it reverts to just the laptop screen. Had to restart the OS (Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit) to get the alt-tab menu and the unity bar out from behind every window and back to the front.

Hope this helps!

[Gilmar Leitão (gilmatryx)]

I am facing the same problem using my laptop connected to another monitor (ubuntu version 14.10).

[Dmitry Rekman (rcl)]

This affects 16.04 as well, at least on a dual-monitor setup. Closing all windows on the affected monitor seems to fix the problem, but then if you alt-tab to a window on another monitor the switcher seems to again get behind all windows.

[Dmitry (dimka.rus)]

Very frustrating bug. Same problem on ubuntu 16.04.

[Andrius (andr1us)]

Same problem. Laptop with one external monitor.

[Nerijus (nerijuse)]

Same here. Desktop PC with single monitor.

[GuiGS (guigs81)]

I'm also affected by this sometimes. I'm using a laptop without external monitor and Ubuntu 16.04.

Also when the bug is present, besides ALT+Tab switcher being under other windows, I noticed that cursor pointers don't show correctly. For example, in a window border, the mouse pointer should get a different icon, like =>| but it doesn't. It is always the default pointer.

I can confirm that minimizing all windows seems to fix the problem, both for Alt+Tab and mouse cursor icons.

[Aleksander Kamenik (aleksander.kamenik)]

+1 for "GuiGS (guigs81) wrote on 2017-08-24".

Laptop with dock with monitor. Got this at some point.
16.04 LTS everything up2date.

Minimizing all windows fixes this. Thanks for the solution.