[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
** Also affects: gsettings-desktop-schemas (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
Adding packages gnome-settings-daemon and gsettings-desktop-schemas, as a fix could be done in either. The issue appears to be that dconf stores the keybindings in arrays of strings, and when set there, gnome-settings-daemon will transition those settings to gconf as defined by /usr/share/GConf/gsettings/wm- schemas.convert. metacity expects those keybindings to just be strings, not lists of strings, so after the conversion, metacity can't read the keybindings. Possible solutions would be 1. Allow conversion to a string, which is probably a challenging task, especially if the array in dconf contains multiple values. the .convert files would have to indicate that a type change is required, which would be a syntax change from existing files, and probably not worth the effort. 2. Just remove these keybindings from the .convert files. I suspect they aren't really necessary. ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed ** Changed in: gsettings-desktop-schemas (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
I'm having the same problem. X is constantly crashing (as in, the screen freezes and takes no keyboard or mouse input), and the last time it crashed and I restarted, I found that the switch applications setting had been disabled. I opened up System settings - Keyboard and set it again to alt-tab and now it's working again. This is the first time this particular bug has happened to me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
Looks like that strings are lists information is right on the money. It fixed my alt-tab issue that appear out of the blue, with no prior warning, yesterday, after I rebooted my laptop. It worked fine during the day, I turned it off, powered it back up in the evening and it was broken, without doing any updates inbetween. I guess there's a rogue element in there somewhere and it won't be easy to find it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
The setting made by System Settings - Keyboard - Shortcats - Navigation - Move between windows, using a popup window helped for a once, but is not stable because of issue reproduces by itself weekly, so I have to configure it again and again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
Thanks Piet, removing the list brackets for cycle_windows does the trick. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
** Changed in: unity-2d (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Michael Szczep (michuzet) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
I just encountered this bug on a fresh Precise installation, with Alt- Tab and most other window management key bindings not working in Unity 2D. I looked in /apps/metacity/global_keybindings and /apps/metacity/window_keybindings as suggested by Pawel, and all the relevant values were wrapped in lists, instead of being strings: unsetting them with gconf-editor made them revert to their default string-only values, and immediately restored functionality. I have not extensively used this installation, but i did log into non-2D Unity a few times before logging into Unity 2D: maybe it (or some other package) inserts these non-working entries into gconf? Are the list values perhaps part of a migration to multi-valued keybindings that Unity 2D should also come to support? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
On 1 June 2012 01:47, Si Dedman 963...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Shahar's idea may work for unity users but removing metacity removes gnome-fallback i.e. the classic interface. Reinstalling it makes everything appear as it was (phew) but alt-tab goes back to not working. Dear Si, Does it really remove the gnome-fallback interface? And how would reinstalling it change anything since reinstalling a package should never change anything in your home directory? Blessings, Shahar -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
Shahar's idea may work for unity users but removing metacity removes gnome-fallback i.e. the classic interface. Reinstalling it makes everything appear as it was (phew) but alt-tab goes back to not working. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
Same problem, just did a software upgrade and now Alt-Tab does not work anymore. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
Same problem, just did a software upgrade and now Alt-Tab does not work anymore. Will try and apply the work-around described by Shahar. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
I can confirm that Shahar's workaround works nicely. Thanks. Back to being productive. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
I experienced this problem after upgrade to Precise. It affected both unity-2d and gnome-2d [System Settings - Keyboard - Shortcuts - Navigation: Switch Applications ] indicated no binding for me. I set it to Alt-Tab and that solved the problem for me. The general proble seems to be that that particular key binding [and I believe any others in that Navigation group) were wiped out or not properly migrated on upgrade. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
Had the same problem in GNOME Classic today. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
I've just experienced the issue today again. I don't think it's related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/963264, as I reproduced it today by logging in out several times, only using unity2d. At some point broken keybindings were created in ~/.gconf directory. Possibly a gconfd bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
** Tags added: configuration-upgrade -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
Dear Friends, To work around this I removed just about everything related: ~/.gconf/apps/metacity ~/.gconf/desktop/keybindings ~/.gconf/desktop/unity-2d And logged out logged back in. Now keyboard shortcuts are default and working. Thanks and Blessings, Shahar -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
Shahar, thanks, yes, this is a possible workaround. The root cause may be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/963264 but I haven't investigated it as the hack mentioned in 963264 was a one time problem and will be removed soon. As I mentioned above, I didn't happend on my other Precise system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
Is there any information I can provide to help debug this? It seems like a very serious UI regression. ** Changed in: unity-2d (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = High ** Changed in: unity-2d Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
I've also experienced this issue on 1 of 2 Precise systems. I noticed that on the affected system all metacity keybindings suddenly have List type (list of strings) in the schema - you can see this with gconf- editor - all key values are surrounded with [ ]. This looks completly wrong. In particular, switch_windows key binding is [AltTab]. I compared this with the other system that doesn't have the problem, and keybindings are all strings. I checked my local user schema: pawel@pawel-VirtualBox:~/.gconf$ grep -R switch_windows * apps/gconf-editor/%gconf.xml: stringvalue/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_windows/stringvalue apps/metacity/global_keybindings/%gconf.xml:entry name=switch_windows_backward mtime=1333006464 type=list ltype=string apps/metacity/global_keybindings/%gconf.xml:entry name=switch_windows mtime=1333040076 type=list ltype=string So again, the type=list is incorrect. I enabled metacity debugging, and it doesn't read such keybindings: ... KEYBINDINGS: Binding switch_to_workspace_left has new gconf value none KEYBINDINGS: Keybinding for switch_to_workspace_left is unchanged KEYBINDINGS: Binding switch_windows has new gconf value none KEYBINDINGS: Keybinding for switch_windows is unchanged ... Alex, could you please open gconf-editor and check the value of apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_windows? Then, please also do the grep test like I did above. This will confirm if we're facing the same issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
Hi Pawel, I have: switch_windows=[AltTab] and $ grep -R switch_windows * apps/metacity/global_keybindings/%gconf.xml:entry name=switch_windows_backward mtime=1333033181 type=list ltype=string apps/metacity/global_keybindings/%gconf.xml:entry name=switch_windows mtime=1333033181 type=list ltype=string -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
** Also affects: unity-2d Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: unity-2d (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963125 Title: Alt-Tab window switcher lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/963125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 963125] Re: Alt-Tab window switcher lost
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