Public bug reported: In olden days, you could alt-tab to return to the last window you had active. and pressing alt-tab twice was a round trip, bringing you back to the same window.
Now alt-tab does something else less useful. Every time I want to switch between two windows, I try to use alt-tab, and fail miserably. It's humiliating. It's been like this for quite a while, and I'm sure it's by design, and is the clever idea of somebody who doesn't actually use the desktop like normal people do. Today I got fed up and RTFM'd. It's a GNOME 3 setting: Settings > Devices > Keyboard > Navigation 'Switch windows' alt-tab Fine. Working again. But why isn't this the default? Please bring back the classic behavior of alt-tab, i.e. "pressing alt-tab takes you to the window that was previously in front". ** Affects: 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/1822858 Title: In Ubuntu desktop, alt-tab twice does not return you to same window To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1822858/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs