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Title: Alt-Tab - Not possible to alt-tab during a drag-and-drop operation Status in Ayatana Design: Fix Committed Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Fix Released Status in metacity: Fix Released Status in Unity: Fix Released Status in Xfwm4: Unknown Status in compiz package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in metacity package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in unity package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: In some window managers (I believe KWin is one of them) the user is able to initiate a drag-and-drop operation, then press alt-tab to raise a window that will be the drop target, and only then release the mouse button so that the drag-and-drop is performed. This is not possible with Metacity, Beryl, Compiz or Xfwm. It is unclear to me whether this is a limitation of the window manager or some other part of the system. ------------------------------------------ Use Case: Dragging movie/audio files from nautilus to totem. Steps to Reproduce: 1. open totem media player full screen 2. open nautilus full screen 3. browse to media files 4. select some media files (e.g. a movie file) and move it to start a drag and drop operation 5. press Alt+Tab Observations: Nothing happens. Expected Results: Alt+Tab should allow the user to switch tasks and preserve the drag state, so the user can drag files from one application to another. Notes: Drag and drop works if the applications are tiled to the left/right of each other, or if they are windowed so it should work when they are full screen. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/111939/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
