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Re: Alt-Tab behaviour

 

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Jamu Kakar <jkakar@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The recent "Dodge Windows" user findings made me wonder about the
> default Alt-Tab switching behaviour.  Since the switcher changed to
> showing windows on all viewports I've found that the only way to make
> it usable (read: predictable) is to set the "Bias alt-tab switching to
> prefer windows on the current viewport" flag in CCSM.  I'm not running
> Precise yet, so maybe that's the default behaviour already, but it
> seems like another nice candidate to promote to a standard default.
>
> I guess most new users wouldn't really experience many issues without
> it, because I suspect they don't use multiple viewports, but for those
> of us that rely on them it makes a big difference.
>

Yes, that default has already been changed in the latest Precise.

Evan

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