Making alt-tab shift applications

[Steve G.]

You can select to not use unity, and instead use classic, which is what I
am doing, as I abhor Unity.

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.

/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.

Z.


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:

> 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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>>
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Sincerely,

Steve

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