Comment 5 for bug 1616896

@crocodile2u

In case anyone else stumbles across this thread whilst trying to work around this issue.

I found a nice trick. First, you need to assign a shortcut to make apps full screen. See https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/3006/can-i-force-full-screen-mode-for-any-application.

In my case, I hooked it up to ctrl+alt+cmd+space.

When you make an app fullscreen it will then move that app to another workspace/desktop, and into fullscreen.

At this point, you can press ctrl+shift+1 which will move your app to the first workspace/desktop.

Then ctrl+leftarrow will move you back to the first desktop.

and bam you can now alt-tab through all the apps, fullscreen or not.

note: You cannot view the dock or top menu because the fullscreen app is always open in the background. so I keep a web browser maximized and not fullscreen so that when I switch to it the top menu and dock are available.