I've been investigating this a little bit more and here are my experiences:
The easiest way to reproduce: 1. start firefox 2. start terminal 3. execute `gnome-open http://launchpad.net/` 4. single Alt+Tab back to the terminal 5. multiple Alt+Tabs to another app Expected result: post-3. firefox is raised and gains focus post-4. terminal is raised and gains focus post-5. another app is raised and gains focus Actual result: post-3. firefox is raised, but focus remains with terminal post-4. firefox was never actually the active window, so Alt+Tab tries to switch to firefox, but well... it's raised, right? so nothing actually happens post-5. another app gets urgent All in all, after also talking to @jassmith it seems like a focus stealing prevention issue. It shows itself whenever a window tries to raise _itself_ - when clicking a link outside of the browser or similar. I'll be digging in metacity to find out what's what and also try to reproduce outside of unity. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/735205 Title: [window management] Alt tab does not switch to the desired application but instead set the urgency flag on the window To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/735205/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
