This bug was introduced into Oneiric by an SRU. It's a regression. It
was fixed a couple of months ago, yet the fix remains unavailable to the
current stable version of Ubuntu, which, as pointed out above, will
remain in widespread use for several months yet.

Furthermore, it is a *major* usability bug. Surely <Alt>Tab is one of
the most widely used keyboard shortcuts. It's simply impossible to
remember to avoid it in order to avoid a crash. I've worked around this
bug by switching to Unity 2D, but what about those who aren't so
technically inclined? Are they able to work around it? Will they find
this bug report and the workarounds posted here?

Normally, I'm not one to add to bug noise by complaining. But this seems
to me to be a basic issue of responsibility. I understand that bugs are
a fact of life, but if you break it, you should fix it -- especially
when the fix is already available, and especially when the breakage was
due to an SRU. It seems that someone ought to take enough pride in their
work that they take basic responsibility.

I know that these kinds of complaints are generally frowned upon, but
what recourse do I have? I don't have the ability to apply the fix
myself, and there's no other place I'm aware of that's more appropriate
for this purpose.

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Title:
  compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in
  unity::switcher::SwitcherController::CompareSwitcherItemsPriority()

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