18.10 → 19.04 Alt-Tab cycling no longer includes Slack window
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Xfwm4 |
Fix Released
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Medium
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xfwm4 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I just upgraded Xubuntu from 18.10 to 19.04 and immediately noticed a regression in the behavior of the Alt-Tab keyboard shortcut to cycle windows: my Slack window is not included. It is installed via snap:
slack 3.4.0 13 stable slack✓ classic
I have several windows open besides Slack—Chromium, Emacs, Terminal, etc.—and all are visible in the notification bar at the top of my screen. But Slack is never included in the list of windows shown in the Alt-Tab dialog (all other windows are). There was no such problem prior to the upgrade.
There is a Slack icon in the Indicator plugin, from which I can open the Slack window, but that seems to be the only way.
Restarting Slack does not help.
I have tried flipping all the checkboxes in the Window Manager Tweaks » Cycling dialog (e.g., Skip windows that have "skip pager" or "skip taskbar" properties set) without success.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: xfwm4 4.12.5-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed May 1 21:04:41 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-25 (918 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xfwm4
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-05-02 (0 days ago)
modified.
# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with
# sudo service apport start force_start=1
enabled=0
mtime.conffile.
Changed in xfwm4: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in xfwm4: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in xfwm4 (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
Changed in xfwm4 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
This might just be bad timing. I don't think it's your OS upgrade, I think it's the Slack release they just pushed. I'm using Xenial and this broke for me this morning when I upgraded Slack's version, however I didn't change my OS version. This might be a slack bug?