Saturday, 7 May 2011

Bugslaying: shift+alt+tab Y U NO WORK?!?

Annoying bug of the week: shift+alt+tab being broken while using Gnome Shell in Ubuntu 11.04.

Probably a side effect of upgrading instead of doing a clean install for 11.04, but shift+alt+tab wasn't switching back through the window list in Gnome Shell. alt+tab worked fine still.

Fixed by opening the CompizConfig Setting Manager (alt+f2, ccsm) and disabling the Prev window hot-key under Window Management -> Static Application Switcher.

Alternatively:
alt+f2 -> gconf-editor

apps -> metacity -> global_keybinds -> switch_windows = <Alt>Tab
apps -> metacity -> global_keybinds -> switch_windows_backward = *blank* or disabled

2 comments:

lucky?strike said...

holy shit that saved my day. I was trying to fix the bug since several days, how did you come up with the fix?

mjwalfredo said...

Thanks for the tip!