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yuvadm

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From: Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel

Registered: 2012-08-08

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GNOME alt-tab broken due to window focus bug

After a recent update, Alt-Tab behavior in GNOME is not working properly.

When hitting alt-tab, indeed the cycling window pops up, but if I have window 1 focused and another window 2 in the background, then the window order is 2-1 (instead of 1-2) essentially putting me right back on window 1.

Does anyone else see this behavior? I didn't find any relevant upstream bugs, nor do I have any special shortcut configuration that might affect this problem.

Last edited by yuvadm (2019-04-05 08:03:36)

phw

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Registered: 2013-05-27

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Re: GNOME alt-tab broken due to window focus bug

Works for me here (only tested on X, not Wayland). Do you use the standard alt-tab if GNOME Shell or do you maybe have one of the extensions installed that replace the standard alt-tab?

yuvadm

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Re: GNOME alt-tab broken due to window focus bug

I don't have any extensions installed, and I'm using the default Wayland.

I've just found this which might be relevant - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/541

schard

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Re: GNOME alt-tab broken due to window focus bug

Can you give details of a state of your desktop in which this happens, so others might reproduce the issue?
What windows are open in what order?

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gnumdk

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Re: GNOME alt-tab broken due to window focus bug

You need Wayland for this issue to happen. Related to recently fixed Xorg focus issue.

gnumdk

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Re: GNOME alt-tab broken due to window focus bug

Fixed by https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/m … quests/539