Exactly. It happened for me when I clicked on the terminal icons by mistake, while at (almost) the same time I used ALT+` for switching windows the way I usually do.
I agree that simply closing the spread (which I called "tile" in the OP) is the solution. This is what happens when ALT+TAB is used to switch to whole other program, and it was as I had expected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1412001 Title: alt+backtick doesn't focus on selected one of many windows previously clicked Status in Unity: Triaged Status in unity package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: This a user experience issue and easily reproducible. Open multiple instances of your favorite application. Then click on Unity's icon for the app when you are already focused on one instance of it. This opens up a tile of the instances of the application which you can select from with the mouse. Now while that tile is shown, use ATL+backtick to select the window you want instead of clicking with the mouse. The result is that the tile window doesn't go away. If you use ALT+backtick and switch to ALT+tab (or start from ALT+tab from the start) and select another kind of application, then the tile goes away correctly and the other application comes in the front. I can verify that the window you would select with ALT+backtick does actually get to the top of the view and is marked as the "last visited instance", because if you switch to another application (using ALT+tab) and click back on the group of the original application you would see the one you previously selected with ALT+backtick. --- Here are step-by-step instructions. - Open a couple of terminals - Open firefox - Click on the terminal icon * This should open a tile showing the various terminal windows you have open * If that doesn't happen, click again (you were not on a terminal window before) - Use ALT+backtick to select one of the terminal windows Expected behavior: The tile of terminals goes away and the selected terminal is focused Observed behavior: The tile of terminals stays on the screen ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: unity 7.3.1+14.10.20141016-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-29.39-generic 3.16.7-ckt2 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-29-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,place,grid,mousepoll,compiztoolbox,vpswitch,regex,gnomecompat,imgpng,snap,move,unitymtgrabhandles,resize,session,wall,animation,workarounds,fade,expo,scale,ezoom,unityshell] CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sat Jan 17 16:32:05 2015 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANGUAGE=en_US XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-11-01 (76 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1412001/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
