alt-grave switcher does not iterate through all windows
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Unity |
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unity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
There is a serious problem with how the alt-backtick (or alt-grave) switching works. Say I have 10 windows open in Firefox. It is almost impossible to iterate through all 10 of them. This is, I think, for 2 reasons.
First, every time the "spread" comes up, the windows are in a different, and seemingly random, order.
If I hit alt-grave over and over again, I just observed it cycling back and forth between 2 windows. It goes between the start window and another, and I have no idea how that window was chosen.
How do I look at the 2nd window, then the 3rd, the the 4th, and so on?
As of now, I have to look at the spread and, for each one, remember which one I have looked at and which I have not. If there are 3 windows, this is fine. But if there are 10 or 12? No. The fact that the windows come up in random order (mentioned above) makes this harder. I cannot even remember the positions of the windows I have examined. I have to actually find the window content.
It would be nice if the job of remember which windows I have seen as I iterated through the available windows was not a job that I had to do, but a job that software could do for me. Is there software that can do this for me? If so, please let me know which it is.
thanx - ray
ps: I have read through these for help:
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Let me know if there is other doc that shows how to configure window switching or what key-combo to use.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity 7.2.2+14.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Oct 27 17:11:22 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-31 (269 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820.1)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-08-14 (74 days ago)
Windows are ordered in the alt-tab spread by their last focus time, so first one is the latest focused (if it's not the currently focused, in this case it is the last one).
If you want to move more easily between these windows, you can also use arrow keys or select your target using the mouse.