Alt+` (Alt+[key above tab]) doesn't work in gnome shell after precise upgrade

[Todd Chaffee]

After upgrading to Precise 12.04, the key that is supposed to switch between the different windows of the same app no longer works. The key combo used for this was previously Alt+` (or Alt+[key above Tab] ).

As an aside, Ctrl+Alt+T for opening a terminal window didn't work either, but I found a workaround for that by just adding a custom shortcut.

Seems like there is some general bugginess with Precise and Gnome Shell key bindings.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome 1:3.0+6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 17 17:56:08 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
SourcePackage: meta-gnome3
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-12 (5 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Bernhard (xro)]

Seems I can now use the keyboard settings dialog to assign Alt+^ to the "switch windows of an application" entry in the shortcuts tab/navigation. Then it works.

To clairfy:
the following dconf DEFAULT settings in org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings do NOT work:
switch-group ['<Alt>Above_Tab']
switch-group-backwards ['<Shift><Alt>Above_Tab']
neither for forward nor backward windows switching.
Curiously, in this cae, the keyboard settings dialog says that "Switch windows of an application" is "Disabled".

However, the following custom settings in org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings DO work:
switch-group ['<Alt>asciicircum']
switch-group-backwards ['<Shift><Alt>Above_Tab']

Curiously, no matter what switch-group-backwards is set to, <shift><alt>asciicircum will work for backward switching whenever switch-group is set to <alt>asciicircum. However the field is not ignored either, since I can i.e. set switch-group-backwards to '<Shift><Alt>y' which is then recognizes as an additional shortcut for window backward switching.

[Bernhard (xro)]

above comment applies to:
Ubuntu quantal
gnome-shell 3.6.2-0ubuntu0.2 amd64

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS reached End of Life in April. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and re-test. If the bug is still reproducible, increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

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