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Compiz static task switcher (or any other similar solution) for SAME screen
I am an Ubuntu desktop n00b, so please play nice.
I am using Ubuntu 13.04. Didn't like the existing task switcher (really uncomfortable for quick work between several windows) so I installed Compiz ...
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Multi-window switcher - mouseover window title not showing
When I have multiple instances of the same program running I see white dots to the left of the launcher icon indicating how many instances I have running. When I click on the icon I see the window ...
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Alt Tab in Ubuntu
There is this minor detail in Ubuntu that if I am running two terminals at the same time, and I want to chose one of them using alt-tab I can't instantaneously do it, rather than I have to wait on the ...
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How to force minimize or switch a video / game - Bug?
I'm comming from Windows 7, and something that I loved there was to Alt+Tab in any Game or video and switch to another app without problem.
Here, I tried with Age of Mythology (Wine), that I play it ...
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Xubuntu XFCE switcher icons
Is it possible to somehow modify the XFCE alt+tab switcher?
What I'd like:
use theme icons (for some apps it uses some lowres-non-theme ones, for others it works nice)
don't make tiny previews for ...
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projector (external/internal combo) icons while switching - how?
External vga connected monitor with laptop.
On windows when you press the projector hotkey/fn key on a laptop, you see a list of options or combinations of external projector and onboard screen, it ...
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How to change the color of the window outline in spread and switcher?
In Ubuntu 13.04, the outline around windows when scale/spread (Super+W) and the switcher (when viewing different windows of an application using Alt+`) are invoked is red. See the pictures below. The ...
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Unity style number shortcuts which also minimize the focused application?
Is there a solution on Linux similar to the Windows 7 Win+number, or Unity's Super+number shortcuts, which will also minimize the application if it is currently active and focused?
In Windows 7, if ...
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Gnome classic Alt-Tab doesn't work
The simple keyboard combination of Alt-Tab to switch between applications doesn't work.
I have followed this answer but it doesn't answer the question as I want to switch to another application, not ...
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How to use Gnome3 window switcher in Unity?
Is there any way to use the default window switcher Alt+Tab from Gnome3 inside Unity? (or a suitable alternative?)
I find the Unity one a bit hard to see which app is selected as they've all been ...
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Is there a way to restrict Alt-Tab to switching between applications in Unity?
I'd like to get behavior similar to that on OS X, where Alt-Tab only switches between applications as a whole and never between windows in the same application. Is there a way to achieve this?
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Gnome shell: how do I map super-tab to app switcher?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 under Parallels on a macbook8,1. I have a Norwegian keyboard, so I have set the alt key to choose 3rd level, so I can acces square and curly brackets (like on the mac). ...
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Dual monitors: how to get the application switcher to show up only on monitor with active window?
I've seen questions looking for an answer to the exact opposite to what I'm asking now.
I've got Xubuntu 12.10 with a dual monitor setup.
Currently, when pressing Alt + Tab, the app switcher ...
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How to stop reordering of the same kind multiple preview windows in task switching?
When using task switching in the default graphical mode of Ubuntu 12.04, if they are multiple windows of the same kind, eg. multiple Terminal windows, you can see them all together and select which ...
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Alt + tab to switch between windows that are only in one screen
I am using GNOME-Classic and my window switcher is the Compiz Static Application Switcher. My problem is, when I press Alt+Tab, the switcher gives me the choice between windows of the whole workspace.
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Unity switcher theme
Is it possible to modify the Unity switcher theme and behavior? Namely: no 3D "rolling" and no icon borders.
I love the gnome-shell's, but unity is better for me.
Are there any 3rd party ...
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Alternative Application Switcher (Alt+Tab) in a Desktop Environment
If I understand correctly, each DE have their own Application Switcher (the thing we get by pressing Alt+Tab). My question is, can the Application Switcher be replaced with a different one?
I mean, ...
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Alt+tab multi displays
I'm Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome Shell on a HP Pavilion dm4 with an external display.
When I try to switch between applications using the Alt+tab shortcut, the box showing the applications is showed only ...
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Deleted metacity folder
I accidently deleted the folder responsible for keybindings, in gconf-editor it would be /apps/metacity/global_keybindings. I deleted the folder out of my home folder by accident. I'm trying to set ...
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change alt-tab to ctrl-tab on ubuntu 12.04
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I have an apple usb keybord for my ubuntu 12.04. I remaped command left key to control for convenience. And now I switch between apps with alt-tab and between tabs within one app with ctrl-tab. ...
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Is there any way to restore the old alt-tab-tab behavior
For me, copying the switcher logic from an another OS to Ubuntu is the worst UX nightmare ever. Having a logical separation between an application and the windows of an application just does not work ...
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application switching
I mind if there is possible to change from a window to another by binding a key shortcut to every window. I mean for example to go to my navigator i would press alt-q and to switch to skype i would ...
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How to remap Alt-TAB app-switching for Ubuntu-guest/OSX-host VirtualBox?
I just setup an Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Virtualbox (guest) in an OSX Lion host.
It's mostly fine, but one annoyance is that, to switch between apps in the Ubuntu guest's interface, I need to press ...
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How to change windows without going full circle?
I'm used to [alt]+[tab] to change windows and I've installed Compiz Config Settings Manager (CCSM) to tweak the default behaviour to my likings.
I've noticed that, after pressing [alt]+[tab], you can ...
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Icon for alt-tab/application switcher
I'm trying to get my program to install correctly, and it mostly does, the launcher icon looks fine, and it opens fine, but the icon used in the alt-tab/app switcher doesn't show up.
The .desktop ...
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disable alt-tab switcher grouping by script or command
In Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity, Alt-Tab lets you switch between groups of windows, and makes it very annoying to switch to a specific window from a group when it is not the last window used.
One way to ...
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Can I use left alt to type dead keys and use the alt-tab application switcher? [closed]
I’m on Ubuntu 12.10 and I’ve seen that I can use
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
to control which key triggers the dead key behaviour on my keyboard (which normally resides on AltGr). ...
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Is there any way to facilitate switching windows in Ubuntu?
I'm just a student who received my laptop from my uncle, who's a coder, so I'm still getting used to working with ubuntu. I recently upgraded ubuntu from an earlier version, and everything seems to be ...
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Remove webapss icon from launcher and switcher [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I keep webapps from appearing in launcher?
I like the Webapps integration in Sound/Messaging Menus, but I don't need them to be in my launcher when they are ...
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Low-res emacs24 icon in application switcher 12.10
I recently upgraded to Quantal, and also switched up to emacs24 from 23. Everything is great, except for one thing: the icon in the Application Switcher for emacs24 is a horrible, low-resolution ...
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“Switch Applications” does not work in 12.10
Since upgrading to 12.10, sometimes "Switch Applications" does not work.
Pressing Alt+Tab works as pressing only Tab key.
And it does not work even if I change the shortcut key to Ctrl+Tab or any ...
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Cycle through clients on both screens in awesomewm
I am using awesomewm and have two monitors, so Mod4+j and Mod4+k cycle through windows on current screen only. Is there a way to cycle through all windows/clients on all screens to make it work like ...
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applications linked to workspaces
I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 and I found a weird behaviour in the multi-workspace management.
Let's say that I have a couple of terminals opened in one workspace, and that I want to do ...
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Application switcher is broken
After a normal update of my Ubuntu 12.04 install last week, my application switcher has stopped working. I've tried all different settings in CompizConfig, including a variety of shortcut keys and ...
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Why do you have to press ALT+` twice to switch windows within an application?
ALT+` switches windows within a running application.
But I notice that you actually have to press this key combo twice to switch to the next window. Pressing it once only displays the application's ...
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OpenOffice Calc doesn't show up in the alt-tab window switcher
I just upgraded to ubuntu 12.04, and it's mostly working. My biggest problem so far: OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc doesn't show up under the task switcher.
When I pres alt-tab to change windows, I can ...
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Stacked Launcher Item Double Click Behaviour on Alt-tab
Let's say that you have multiple firefox windows open. What you see happen is an additional arrow points to it's icon in the launcher. However, if you double click the icon, it displays all of the ...
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Change icon size in unity's application switcher (alt-tab)?
When I switch applications with alt-tab under Unity (full version, not the 2d one), my open applications are displayed, represented by their respective icon. These icons are quite huge... everytime I ...
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xmonad-like window switching in unity
Is there a configuration option for any of available switchers, that will make the order of windows constant? Currently in ubuntu 12.04 When I have windows A, B, C, D (in that order) and I switch from ...
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Low quality window switcher icons in Gnome 3
I'm using Gnome 3 with Ubuntu. I've manually replaced a few low resolution icons in the application menus. However, when switching between programs, some of the icons are still of low quality. Here's ...
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Is there a way to prevent alt-tab from raising all windows of an application?
I have several gvim windows open and one Firefox window. Using Alt-Tab to switch to Firefox works as expected. Using it to go back to gvim does return focus to the gvim window I wanted to write in, ...
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Application switcher causes Chrome to “freeze”
I don't like the default Unity application switcher, so I tried switching "Application Switcher" and "Static Application Switcher" in Compiz. I like both of these, but unfortunately when I'm using ...
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How can I remove “Show Desktop” from the Alt-Tab (application) switcher?
Is it possible to remove "Show Desktop" from the Alt+Tab application switcher?
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Keyboard Shortcuts to switch directly to applications
Using Unity is there a way to create a single key shortcut to switch to an existing instance of an application? For instance, rather than hitting alt-tab N times to switch to my browser I could ...
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Application switcher's (compiz) thumbnails not working in ubuntu 12.04
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I somehow cannot get compiz effects to work. especially application switcher's thumbnails - I only get the icons and I think that changing the options do not ...
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Remove icon borders in Unity application switcher
In Unity's application switcher (ALT-TAB), each icon has a colored border (see red arrow in screenshot below).
It is misleading, a bright icon has a bright border, making it look as if it were the ...
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Xchat window does not appear in switcher [closed]
Xchat never appears in the application switcher.
I use Ubuntu 2012.04 with Unity, very few tweaks.
Always reproducible with these steps:
Open Xchat
Press ALT-TAB
Result: Xchat is not displayed in ...
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Disable icon background colors in application switcher (ALT-TAB) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How I turn off backlight around switcher icons
When pressing ALT-TAB, the application switcher appears. You can continue pressing TAB to select the icon of the window ...
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Cannot alt+tab to another window while holding an item
As the title indicates, I cannot move an item over to another window using alt+tab.
Any help would be appreciated!
I am using ubuntu 12.04, with application switcher on (in compizconfig).
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Unlocked item from Unity launcher, now I can't get it back and launcher acts like it doesn't exist [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to pin Eclipse to the Unity launcher?
The application I'm interested in is Eclipse (manually downloaded). When I first ran Eclipse the only problem I had was that ...
