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[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

As per bug #1349281 also the order of the windows in spread won't follow
anymore what you say. Instead windows will spread based on their actual
position, more than on the focus state.

What happens with Alt-` instead, is that it follows the same behavior of
alt+tab: the first and quick tap should select the *previously* focused
window, not the window to be focused next (as it happened with spread).

So windows switcher spread are arranged based on their "last focused"
time, so that you can quickly access the windows you used more recently.

** Summary changed:

- alt-backtick switcher does not iterate through all windows
+ alt-grave switcher does not iterate through all windows

** Changed in: unity
       Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix

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Title:
  alt-grave switcher does not iterate through all windows

Status in Unity:
  Won't Fix
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

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)

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