<div dir="ltr">You can select to not use unity, and instead use classic, which is what I am doing, as I abhor Unity.<div><br></div><div style>I ran as guest and the alt-tab worked. I will sooner or later try with unity on my own login, but even if it works, I won't use unity.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>/etc/default/keyboard gives me the layout. I switch between languages using setxkbmap us/il but I do not believe it helps in either language.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Z.</div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Amichai Rotman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amichai@iglu.org.il" target="_blank">amichai@iglu.org.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;border-right:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Take a look at this file for clues:<div><br></div><div>/etc/default/keyboard<br>
<br>When you install the server and get to the keyboard part, don't use the defaults, choose Asia/Israel and go through the Keyboard Layout wizard. It will ask you for the key combination to change layout at the end.</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>ubuntu-desktop is not GNOME, it's actually Unity.<br><br></div>See for a possible answer here:<br>
<a href="http://askubuntu.com/a/68171" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/a/68171</a><br><br></div>Cheers<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Tue, Apr 2, <a href="tel:2013" value="+9722013" target="_blank">2013</a> at 3:40 PM, Steve G. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wordz2u@gmail.com" target="_blank">wordz2u@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>I had a computer that I considered for use as a server, and thus installed ubuntu server edition on it. I proceeded to install gnome desktop with - if I remember correctly - the command: <span style="line-height:20px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;font-family:Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica">sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>It gave me a perfectly satisfactory desktop, except for one thing - I can't switch between applications using the alt-tab shortcut, which always worked for me.</div><div><br></div><div>
I tried installing the compizconfig-settings-manager, but it does not have this option (to switch windows). System Settings - hardware - keyboard does not seem to do it either. I can add a custom shortcut, but it does not work</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any advice? I'd best like to know which line to add to a configuration file, instead of messing with GUIs that are supposed to work but don't.</div><div><br></div><div>THX,</div>
<div><br></div><div>Z.</div><div><br></div><div>uname -a : </div><div><br></div><div>3.5.0-26-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 8 23:18:20 UTC <a href="tel:2013%20x86" value="+9722013" target="_blank">2013 x86</a>_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux</div>
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