Making alt-tab shift applications

[Amichai Rotman]

Add this line as the last line of the settings block:

XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"

I know you are quite technical, and you asked for a file to add the config
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On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Steve G. <wordz2u at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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