desktop-packages team mailing list archive

[Ray Kiddy <1386466@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu.
Matching subscriptions: dp-unity
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