Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: metacity
1) Release of Ubuntu:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04
2) Version of metacity
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ apt-cache policy metacity
metacity:
Installed: 1:2.22.0-0ubuntu4
Candidate: 1:2.22.0-0ubuntu4
Version table:
*** 1:2.22.0-0ubuntu4 0
500 http://mirrors.acm.jhu.edu hardy/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:2.20.0-0ubuntu3 0
500 http://mirrors.acm.jhu.edu gutsy/main Packages
3) Problem report
The way things used to work:
3a) Normal Alt-tab behavior: This still works
Pressing and holding Alt, then tapping Tab, brings up a list of window
icons with text describing each window. The first icon is selected. With
one icon selected, if one presses Shift-Tab, you go backwards in the
list. If one presses Tab, one goes forward in the list. Releasing Alt
makes the list go away and the selected window come to the foreground.
3b) Normal Alt-Shift-Tab behavior ("normal" being defined as "the way
everything except Ubuntu 8.04 does it"):
Pressing and holding Alt, then tapping Shift-Tab, brings up a list of
window icons with text describing each window. The last icon is
selected. With one icon selected, if one presses Shift-Tab, you go
backwards in the list. If one presses Tab, one goes forward in the
list. Releasing Alt makes the list go away and the selected window come
to the foreground.
4) ABNORMAL Alt-Shift-Tab behavior (ABNORMAL being defined as the new
way this happens in Ubuntu 8.04, although it also happens this way in
7.10 if you manually enable the Shift-Tab gconf key):
Pressing and holding Alt, then tapping Shift-Tab, brings up a list of
window icons with text describing each window. (So far, so good.)
The last icon is selected. (So far, so good.)
With one icon selected, if one presses Shift-Tab, you go FORWARDS in the
list. (Behavior changed EMPHASIZED.)
If one presses Tab, one goes BACKWARD in the list. (Behavior change
EMPHASIZED.)
Releasing Alt makes the list go away and the selected window come to the
foreground. (That's okay.)
5) This is a serious behavior change. I do also get it using Ubuntu 7.10
after manually enabling alt-shift-tab via gconf
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/150702>.
Note that I am running no compiz, just metacity:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ps aux | grep [m]etac
1000 7594 0.0 0.5 19500 11500 ? S Apr13 1:48
/usr/bin/metacity --sm-client-id=default0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ps aux | grep [c]ompiz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $
** Affects: metacity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Alt-shift-tab behavior has changed without notice
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217989
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