Public bug reported: There is a serious problem with how the alt-backtick (or alt-grave) switching works. Say I have 10 windows open in Firefox. It is almost impossible to iterate through all 10 of them. This is, I think, for 2 reasons.
First, every time the "spread" comes up, the windows are in a different, and seemingly random, order. If I hit alt-grave over and over again, I just observed it cycling back and forth between 2 windows. It goes between the start window and another, and I have no idea how that window was chosen. How do I look at the 2nd window, then the 3rd, the the 4th, and so on? As of now, I have to look at the spread and, for each one, remember which one I have looked at and which I have not. If there are 3 windows, this is fine. But if there are 10 or 12? No. The fact that the windows come up in random order (mentioned above) makes this harder. I cannot even remember the positions of the windows I have examined. I have to actually find the window content. It would be nice if the job of remember which windows I have seen as I iterated through the available windows was not a job that I had to do, but a job that software could do for me. Is there software that can do this for me? If so, please let me know which it is. thanx - ray ps: I have read through these for help: http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/jv5vy/ubuntu_1110_so_far_screenshot_tour_by_jono_bacon/c2fk1bs http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboard-and-mouse- shortcuts http://design.canonical.com/2012/03/task-switching-in-ubuntu-and-a -introduction-to-the-spread/ Let me know if there is other doc that shows how to configure window switching or what key-combo to use. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity 7.2.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5 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] CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Oct 27 17:11:22 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-31 (269 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820.1) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-08-14 (74 days ago) ** Affects: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1386466 Title: alt-backtick switcher does not iterate through all windows Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: There is a serious problem with how the alt-backtick (or alt-grave) switching works. Say I have 10 windows open in Firefox. It is almost impossible to iterate through all 10 of them. This is, I think, for 2 reasons. First, every time the "spread" comes up, the windows are in a different, and seemingly random, order. If I hit alt-grave over and over again, I just observed it cycling back and forth between 2 windows. It goes between the start window and another, and I have no idea how that window was chosen. How do I look at the 2nd window, then the 3rd, the the 4th, and so on? As of now, I have to look at the spread and, for each one, remember which one I have looked at and which I have not. If there are 3 windows, this is fine. But if there are 10 or 12? No. The fact that the windows come up in random order (mentioned above) makes this harder. I cannot even remember the positions of the windows I have examined. I have to actually find the window content. It would be nice if the job of remember which windows I have seen as I iterated through the available windows was not a job that I had to do, but a job that software could do for me. Is there software that can do this for me? If so, please let me know which it is. thanx - ray ps: I have read through these for help: http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/jv5vy/ubuntu_1110_so_far_screenshot_tour_by_jono_bacon/c2fk1bs http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboard-and- mouse-shortcuts http://design.canonical.com/2012/03/task-switching-in-ubuntu-and-a -introduction-to-the-spread/ Let me know if there is other doc that shows how to configure window switching or what key-combo to use. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity 7.2.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5 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] CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Oct 27 17:11:22 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-31 (269 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820.1) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-08-14 (74 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1386466/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
