Making alt-tab shift applications

Making alt-tab shift applications

Amichai Rotman amichai at iglu.org.il
Tue Apr 2 16:57:35 IDT 2013


Take a look at this file for clues:

/etc/default/keyboard

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.

  Amichai Rotman
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On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Meir Kriheli <mkriheli at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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