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  1. Bug #189895
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Comment 3 for bug 189895

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David Barrett (dbarrett) wrote :

Ah, quick clarification and update:

1) If I choose "Normal" desktop effects the "shifts right after 500ms" bug goes away, but the Shift-Alt-Tab bug remains.

2) If I manually set the keybinding as Kjell recommends, *all* problems go away. In other words, Shift-Alt-Tab works, and the Switcher window doesn't jump right after a half-second.

Digging a bit deeper, I noticed that "/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_windows_backward" was set to the string "disabled". Setting it to "<Shift><Alt>Tab" fixes it, but also just clearing the string (ie, setting it to "") fixes it too.

Finally, setting that preference back to "disabled" makes Shift-Alt-Tab stop working (which I guess makes sense), but doesn't recreate the "switcher window jumps right" bug.

So, the upshot is this doesn't really seem like a bug, but rather the Metacity application is misconfigured by default to disable Shift-Alt-Tab. Furthermore, my "switcher window jumps right" bug seems unrelated and (now) unreproducible.

-david