Making alt-tab shift applications

Making alt-tab shift applications

Meir Kriheli mkriheli at gmail.com
Tue Apr 2 16:22:36 IDT 2013


ubuntu-desktop is not GNOME, it's actually Unity.

See for a possible answer here:
http://askubuntu.com/a/68171

Cheers


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Steve G. <wordz2u at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> THX,
>
> Z.
>
> uname -a :
>
> 3.5.0-26-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 8 23:18:20 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
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