The "Switch windows of an application" feature is broken when opening trash or external drives in Nautilus

Bug #1996045 reported by Stepan Roucka
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unity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Steps to reproduce (in Ubuntu 22.04)
1) Enable "Show Volumes and Devices" and "Show Trash" in the Dock settings (this is the defaults)
2) Open two Nautilus windows
3) In one window, navigate to the Trash folder
4) Pressing Alt+` (or other shortcut for "Switch windows of an application") when one of the Nautilus windows is in focus will not switch to the other Nautilus window.

Expected behavior: Alt+` should switch between all Nautilus windows, not only those in the same mount.

Workaround: Disable "Show Volumes and Devices" and "Show Trash" in the Dock settings

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Ville Myllymäki (ville-myllymaki) wrote :

I'm new to this, but this function is broken in another way. It seems to be so that (in addition to this trash/nautilus-problem), cycling works only with left-most app that comes up when you do super-tab.

No matter what app you have active, alt+` cycles only that one program.

If I first browse with super-tab to specific app, then alt+` cycles that specific app windows.

I'm on Ubuntu 22.10. , fresh.

To that original bug, super-tab shows that Trash is separate app, not nautilus-window. Therefore it does not cycle at all.

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