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Public bug reported:

I stopped using Unity's default Alt+Tab switcher due to its mandatory
windows grouping, and changed to compiz's Shift Switcher, which looks
great and does not group windows.

But Shift Switcher has a very annoying bug about Alt+Tab ordering - I
cannot re-order windows by using Alt-Tab, and the order it choses is
unpredictable.

Its hard to explain, but Ill try an example: 10 open windows, I'm on
Firefox, next to it (in alt+tab order) are xchat, eclipse, terminal,
nautilus, gedit.

Alt+tab,tab,tab,release, I'm on terminal.

Now I expect that a quick Alt+Tab would open Firefox (it was the last
window). But instead it opens... Nautilus! And I have to Alt+tab,tab...
(or Shift+Alt+tab,tab...) to go back to Firefox. And no matter what I
do, I'm unable to make Firefox and Terminal stay together on Alt+Tab
order using Alt+Tab and release alone.  I need to minimize all windows
but these 2 to make it so.

And sometimes the order changes randomly, making the 2nd or 3rd window
in Alt+Tab order be a window that I don't use for a long time. And I
also noticed that by clicking on the windows on Unity's Launcher allows
me to change order, so I could click Firefox, click Terminal, and then
these would be together in Alt+Tab.

Shoudn't Alt+Tab order be based on which windows had last focus?
Shouldn't I be able to "re-order" the stack by using Alt+tab and
releasing in the wanted windows in a given order so the next alt+tab
will have that order? And why this order sometimes change unpredictably?

Using Ubuntu 12.04 x64 desktop, fully updated with all repos including
"-proposed"

** Affects: compiz (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Wrong Alt+Tab order using Shift Switcher

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