alt+tab brings up the hud unwelcomed when external monitor is connected
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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unity-2d (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Critical
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When I have an external monitor plugged into my system running unity-2d and I press alt+tab, after switching windows, the hud is brought up about 75% of the time. If I tap Alt again to clear it, I'm taking back to the previous window! This makes window switching completely unusable.
If I only have the internal screen connected, this doesn't happen.
The problem persists even if I disable the LVDS display in the display preferences in gnome-control-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity-2d 5.8.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 017452a27eca3c8
CheckboxSystem: ecaaad6fa1e0799
Date: Mon Apr 9 19:53:17 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-2d
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-08 (153 days ago)
How is your external display connected? Via a regular port or via some propietary hardware system? It seems kind of strange that adding a new screen would trigger this issue.
If you feel adventurous please install unity-2d from this ppa https:/ /launchpad. net/~aacid/ +archive/ ppaprecise/ and do the following
* Open a terminal
* Write "killall unity-2d-shell"
* Write "killall unity-2d-shell" again
* Write "unity-2d-shell"
* Try to reproduce the problem with alt+tab triggering the hud
* Attach here the output of the "unity-2d-shell" command, which shall contain the logging of which keys you pressed/released and why the hud was triggered