Switching application keyboard shortcuts not working

Bug #1918014 reported by Yotam Benshalom
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

After last updates, Alt+Tab no lonnger moves between all open applications. It only switches between the two last focused windows without loading the switching overlay. Super+Tab behaves the same way.
My keyboard settings are reset to default, and they behave strangely:

1. "Alt+tab" is not there at all.
2. Switch Windows is "Super+;", Switch Applications is "Super+Tab".
3. Super+Tab works just like Alt+Tab, i.e. switches between the last two focued windows.
4. When I try to set Switch Windows to "Alt+Tab" it complains that it is already in use for Switch Applications, although it does not say so in the settings
5. When I try to set "Switch Applications" to be "Alt+Tab", this shortcut still only moves between two last focused apps.

This is what I get from gsettings:

~$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-applications
['<Super>Tab', '<Alt>Tab']

~$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-windows
@as []

So now I have no way of moving between more than 2 applications using the keyboard.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.38.4-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.10.0-14.15-generic 5.10.11
Uname: Linux 5.10.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu59
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sat Mar 6 19:16:01 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-05 (913 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Alpha amd64 (20180822)
RebootRequiredPkgs:
 evolution-data-server
 gnome-shell
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-02-04 (30 days ago)

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Yotam Benshalom (benshalom) wrote :
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multip (multip) wrote :

I can second this exact issue.

Perhaps related to this, my touchpad settings (tab to click and edge scrolling) are not working.
Changing them gnome preferences panel has no effect.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: regression-release
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multip (multip) wrote :

Some additional information, it appears to affect only X-Server not Wayland.
I just tested it in Wayland and here alt+tab works correctly and also the touchpad is back to normal.

@benshalom do you use also X11 as default? Can you confirm it affects only X11 and works correctly on Wayland?

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Yotam Benshalom (benshalom) wrote :

I do use X11. I have an Nvidia card, so wayland is not supported on my system.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1917926, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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