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[Paul Sladen <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: compiz-fusion-plugins-main
  
- In compiz-fusion, the Shift Switcher has a strange way of keeping track
- of windows.  Let's say I have ten windows open, numbered in order of
- which I've used most recently (1 being most recent).
+ In compiz-fusion, the various Switchers have a strange way of keeping
+ track of windows.  Let's say I have ten windows open, numbered in order
+ of which I've used most recently (1 being most recent).
  
  Application switcher allows me to switch between the 2 most recently
  used windows (1 to 2 and back to 1) by simply pressing alt-tab and alt-
  tab again.  After switching, it leaves all windows where they were
  except the one I've selected.  To go to the one I used before these two,
  I press alt-tab-tab (1-2-3).
  
  Shift switcher does something arbitrary that I haven't figured out yet.
  In most cases if I just do hyper-tab, it goes 1-2.  But if I cycle
  through more than that, it goes 1-2-8 or 1-2-4.  Then what was 1 may get
  pushed way to the back behind 10 and 7.  Most annoying of all, it
  doesn't just bring the window to the front temporarily as application
  switcher does, but it permanently shuffles the windows on your desktop,
  so everything is out of order, especially if I cycle through more than
  one window.  This makes it impossible to quickly switch between two or
  three windows I'm working actively with, instead bringing to the front
  things I haven't worked with in hours.  Why not just use the same
  algorithm application switcher uses, keeping track of which windows have
  been used most recently and leaving all windows except the selected one
  where they were?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175874

Title:
  Compiz switcher Alt-Tab order is not predictable - should maintain
  LIFO ordering in application switcher