Comment 4 for bug 742237

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Paul Sladen <email address hidden> wrote:
> I'm tempted to dup this to bug #175874 ("Compiz switcher Alt-Tab order
> is not predictable - should maintain LIFO ordering in application
> switcher") and re-open that despite it being "Fix Released" as the
> solution clearly wasn't generic enough.
>

This is not the same issue. The problem here is that you can change
the currently active window with the switchers but the window that
actually ends up getting selected is the one that you click on to exit
scale mode.

In reality, the switcher and scale plugins should not be used at the same time.

> Sam: it the shared-code of all of the switchers, would it be possible to
> perhaps save the stack order array at the start of the Alt-tab
> initiation and then restore that array as-was whenever Esc is pressed,
> or Alt-tab is released on a target window?
>
> ** Also affects: unity (Ubuntu Lucid)
>   Importance: Undecided
>       Status: New
>
> ** Also affects: unity (Ubuntu Natty)
>   Importance: Undecided
>       Status: New
>
> ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu Lucid)
>       Status: New => Won't Fix
>
> ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu Natty)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu Natty)
>    Milestone: None => ubuntu-11.04
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742237
>
> Title:
>  Alt-Tab is broken while Compiz scale plugin is active
>
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Incomplete
> Status in “unity” source package in Lucid:
>  Won't Fix
> Status in “unity” source package in Natty:
>  Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: unity
>
>  PROBLEM
>
>  When the scale plugin is used to switch windows, the behavior of
>  normal Alt-Tabbing becomes unpredictable. Even if you use scale to
>  switch between the same two windows, when you then hit Alt-Tab it will
>  take you to a random window, instead of the one you were just using