I've taken a look at this and here is what I've found.
Regarding Calibre, the issue is that the error message pops up before
the application has finished starting and presented its icon. Since
there is no icon yet associated with Calibre and it hasn't finished
starting, there isn't anything we can do in Unity to show the
application in the Alt-Tab switcher.
Regarding LibreOffice Writer, I'm unable to reproduce the behavior you
describe. I docked Navigator to the left of the Writer and I still get
LibreOffice in the Alt-Tab switcher.
Since the behavior is either out of Unity's control or unreproducible,
I'm marking this Invalid. If you find another reproduction case that I
can try, then please feel free to post it here.
Thanks!
** Changed in: unity
Status: Triaged => Invalid
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Invalid
** Changed in: unity
Milestone: 7.2.0 => None
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013790
Title:
Alt-Tab, Keyboard shortcuts - ALT-TAB hides application while showing
a messagebox
Status in Ayatana Design:
Fix Committed
Status in Unity:
Invalid
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
for example using calibre (an e-book manager).
Pre condition:
- Install Calibre (ebook manager)
- use a mounted drive to set calibre's library location
- Unmount the drive where calibre looks for its ebook library.
Test case:
- Open an application, eg firefox.
- Open calibre (Calibre gives an error on startup because the drive is not
mounted)
- Swith to an other application using alt-tab
- Switch back to caliber.
Expected behaviour:
- Calibre is shown
Current behaviour:
- Calibre is not present in the alt-tab menu (you can not swith back to
caliber)
Extra information:
Added an screenshot for calibre giving the error message.
Starting calibre again is not possible because calibre is still running (but
not vissible using alt-tab).
This behaviour is true for other applications as well.
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ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins:
[core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
DistroCodename: precise
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
DistroVariant: ubuntu
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18
Tags: precise precise precise ubuntu
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: Please work this issue through technical support channels
first.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
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