[no-standard-config] hide all windows breaks ALT + TAB switcher

[Jeppe bs]

After pressing Ctrl + Alt + D to show my desktop (hide all windows) I can not use the ALT + TAB to switch between windows

Ubuntu 11.10

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

thanks for the bug report here i am not be able to reproduce it
kindly define steps to reproduce it
i do so
ctrl + alt+ d
and than alt + tab
it works fine

[Jeppe bs (jeppesvendsen)]

I use the same steps

I press ctrl + alt + d

Desktop and launcher shows.

Then i try to alt + tab back to last app but nothing happens, have to press an app in the launcher or ctrl + alt + d to to make the alt + tab work again.

Maybe it has something to o with compiz manager? I have been playing with settings about alt + tab and suddenly things worked as i wanted, though i have no idea how it ended up like that.

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[Jeppe bs (jeppesvendsen)]

I forgot to mention I have turned on this behavior from the Static Windows Manager

Described here

http://askubuntu.com/questions/118152/static-application-switcher-is-empty-after-show-dekstop

Another thing is that when i click some icon of the tray like Battery Icon and the menu shows this also disables the ALT + TAB showing.

All these different settings for ALT + TAB through Static Application Switcher, Application Switcher, Unity plugin... e.t.c. seem very confusing to me. That would be really nice to clean up somehow.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

that is not an issue for me in Ubuntu 12.04 beta 2. can you please test there and let us know if the issue is fixed for you as well.

[Jeppe bs (jeppesvendsen)]

@Omer

Do you also use the Static Application Swithcer? Set up to ALT + TAB will browse through all windows, not grouping them

[Jeppe bs (jeppesvendsen)]

I just booted up in 12.04 Beta 2 and recreated the problem.

I install compiz manager.

Enable Static Application Switcher

Then when i press Ctrl + Alt + D it breaks the application switcher.

it is a bit stupid. I mean, I dont really like the Static Application Switcher I just want the functionality to ungroup application when pressing Alt + Tab. Like in the old days (11.04?, Windows..) If only the Unity plugin in compiz manager could do this I would not care about this issue.

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[joncamfield (jon-camfield)]

I have the exact same problem. It occurs in two ways:

1) Using Ctrl-Alt-D to show desktop
2) Using Unity's Switcher to select the desktop, which also shows the desktop.

Once this happens, no other switcher (ring switcher, super-w) can show the existing windows. They lose any indicators in the launcher, and opening them from the launcher opens a new instance.

To "restore" them, you can open a new window of anything, then alt-tab from it back to the "show desktop" option. This "stops" the show desktop process and restores the hidden windows.

This presents an EXTREMELY annoying and un-intuitive process for users. As a decently veteran Linux, Ubuntu and Compiz user, the first time this happened to me, I thought all my apps had silently been crashed and logged out, losing my work.

WORK AROUND: This is because the Fade to Desktop or Show Desktop Compiz plugin is active and running on top of Unity's show desktop function, so "activating" show desktop turns on the Compiz version, without a way to un-show the desktop, except by the steps above to re-activate the process.

Disabling the Compiz Fade-To-Desktop and Show-Desktop plugins restores a much more sane process. These should be set to conflict with Unity's show-desktop feature, which should be easy to unset for users who prefer the existing Compiz versions (like myself, I love the hide-to-corners effect)