Comment 11 for bug 998285

This issue creeped up on me in 13.10. It's SUUUUUUUUUUUUPER annoying!!!!!!

Let me explain. It's the inconsistency that's the problem. It took me several month to even conceptionalize why I am subliminally irritated by Unity. I use alt-tab and alt-backtick all the time to navigate between apps and windows. For the most part it works well but after a alt-backtick the behavior of alt-tab changes. Even after month this is never what I expect. It's subjectively totally erratic. When I press alt-tab I always want the "previous app." I have this intention a lot. I need a "get me to the previous app" key, not a "sure back to previous app in most of the cases" key.

I get the idea of focusing on the last window no matter what app it was from. This feature may be a ok o the alt-backtick key. It actually makes a lot of sense there because I almost neve switch between windows of the same app after switching the app. For this reason "take me to the last window" feature would usually not interfer with what I expect the button does.

I think way more people would complain about this if it wasn't sucha subliminal annoyance.