On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Sam Spilsbury <smspil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Feathertail <742...@bugs.launchpad.net> > wrote: >> @Sam: You're incorrect. This does sound very much like the bug that Paul >> mentions. >> >> I should have clarified: I'm not pressing Alt-Tab while the scale plugin >> is active, I'm pressing it after I've successfully used it to switch >> back and forth between windows. I use scale to flip to one window, then >> I use it to flip back to another, then I press Alt-Tab and it takes me >> to a random third or fourth window. > > Ah right. > > In this case it is *still* not a bug in the switchers, but rather the > fact that some plugins will change the window activity state (eg > active -> inactive) and this indirectly affects the sorting order of > alt-tab.
Clarification: Alt-tab sorts in order of activity, so the first active window, then the next one that was active and so on and so forth. > > The real solution here is to provide a way to show that a window > *would* be active by some user input but not actually activate it in > that case. However, since that would require an API change, it is too > late to put into Natty. > > The stop-gap that we took in the switchers was to not show the window > in the "active" state while it was highlighted. I think that this is a > perfectly fine behavior for the scale plugin too. > >> >> I'm sorry for the confusion. >> >> -- >> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Unity >> Bugs, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742237 >> >> Title: >> Alt-Tab is broken while Compiz scale plugin is active >> >> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: >> Incomplete >> Status in “unity” source package in Lucid: >> Won't Fix >> Status in “unity” source package in Natty: >> Incomplete >> >> Bug description: >> Binary package hint: unity >> >> PROBLEM >> >> When the scale plugin is used to switch windows, the behavior of >> normal Alt-Tabbing becomes unpredictable. Even if you use scale to >> switch between the same two windows, when you then hit Alt-Tab it will >> take you to a random window, instead of the one you were just using. >> >> HOW TO REPRODUCE >> >> 1. Enable the scale plugin using Compiz Config. (I have it set to use the >> lower-left and lower-right screen corners, to switch between all >> applications.) >> 2. Open a handful of windows, at least three or four. >> 3. Use scale to flip between any two windows a couple of times. >> 4. Press Alt-Tab. >> >> EXPECTED BEHAVIOR >> >> Using mouse gestures to switch between windows won't foul up the >> keyboard shortcuts. >> >> ProblemType: Bug >> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 >> Package: unity 3.6.6-0ubuntu2 >> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.37-generic 2.6.38 >> Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686 >> Architecture: i386 >> CompizPlugins: >> [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,resize,grid,vpswitch,compiztoolbox,gnomecompat,regex,imgpng,mousepoll,move,place,session,animation,workarounds,wall,expo,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell] >> Date: Fri Mar 25 00:06:48 2011 >> EcryptfsInUse: Yes >> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) >> InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) >> ProcEnviron: >> LANGUAGE=en_US:en >> PATH=(custom, user) >> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> SHELL=/bin/bash >> ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.37-generic 2.6.38 >> SourcePackage: unity >> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-18 (7 days ago) >> > > > > -- > Sam Spilsbury > -- Sam Spilsbury -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742237 Title: Alt-Tab is broken while Compiz scale plugin is active -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
