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[David Benjamin <1399044@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can, but that's not the point. In most systems, alt-tab naturally
forms an LRU ordering, which means you can switch between two
applications very quickly. This behavior means that LRU is broken on
multimonitor.

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Title:
  Alt-tab in unity only raises one window of a multi-window application

Status in Unity:
  New
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Borrowing from OS X rather than Windows, Unity makes Alt-Tab switch by
  application rather than by window. However, unlike OS X, Unity only
  raises one window, seemingly selected at random, when you Alt-Tab to
  an application with multiple windows.

  This makes it extremely difficult to Alt-Tab quickly between two
  applications when using two monitors. If I have two monitors with:

  Monitor 1: Chrome + Terminal + Emacs
  Monitor 2: Chrome

  Now, focus the Chrome in monitor 1. Alt-Tab to the Terminal. Try to
  Alt-Tab back to monitor 1's Chrome. Even if the mouse is on the left
  half, only monitor 2's Chrome raises. This behavior makes window
  management very frustrating; it breaks LRU and makes it hard to flip
  between two windows. It's also hard to tell if anything even happened,
  so I lose track of what app I switched to.

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