Questions tagged [application-switcher]
Questions about Alt-Tab and similar keyboard shortcuts that allow desktop user to switch between multiple running programs, and sometimes to switch between a running program and the desktop.
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Separate workspaces in Ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
In Ubuntu 16.04 each workspace had a separate 'application space' as it were. That is, when you were on workspace 1 you could only loop through applications on that workspace. So I could have, for ...
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Make Alt + Tab behavior in Ubuntu 18.04 same as in Ubuntu 16 [duplicate]
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 16 to Ubuntu 18.04. The Alt + Tab behavior has changed. I already installed a gnome extension to remove the delay as recommended in this answer: GNOME : Ubuntu 18.04 ...
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Alt + Tab to show all instances of an application? [duplicate]
How can I 'flatten' Alt+Tab cycle to show all application windows?
For example, before this update, you would just continue Alt tabbing until you reached the required application window. However, ...
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Alt+Tab and switching workspaces from full screen applications freeze
I'm currently using Ubuntu 16.04 on my Lenovo Thinkpad and keep running into the following problem: When I try to Alt+Tab out of many applications in full screen mode, the system becomes unresponsive ...
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Static Application Switcher is empty after show dekstop
I'm using the Static Application Switcher to configure my Alt+Tab to cycle through all applications not grouped. So far so good.
Then I press Super+D to "hide all normal windows" (show desktop). This ...
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Low-res emacs24 icon in application switcher
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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How to never ungroup windows of the same app in Task Switcher
In Ubuntu 16.04 when an app is focused on long enough in the application switcher it will present me with all the windows of that app. How do I configure the switcher to never do this?
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How to make alt+backtick switch only windows on the current workspace?
There are multiple questions and answers about how to make Alt+Tab switch only applications of current workspace, most notably this one.
However, is there any way to enforce the same behavior to Alt+`...
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Alt + Tab suddenly stopped working properly
Normally, holding down Alt and pressing Tab cycles through windows. However, suddenly, holding down Alt and pressing Tab brings up the window switcher like normal, but further presses of Tab do ...
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Alt-Tab shows two application switchers on Unity [duplicate]
I started to have problems with my Ubuntu application switcher (Alt + Tab) this morning. When I press Alt + Tab, not only one, but two application switchers show up. Last night I customized some ...
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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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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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How to set Application Switcher (Alt+Tab) to show apps from current monitor only on Ubuntu 22.04?
Is there a way to only show apps on my current monitor when I hit Alt+Tab on a dual monitor setup?
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Alt-Tab window switcher that responds to mouse clicks in MATE?
The Alt-Tab window switcher is pretty great but there is one issue with it. When you click on a window while Alt-Tab is pressed, it doesn't switch to the window. It just closes the window switcher. So ...
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Place Compiz Static Application Switcher always on a certain monitor
variants of this question have been asked, namely, how to place the switcher on both monitors when using compiz and when using Unity, neither are possible from what I see.
Having it on both monitors ...
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Is there any way to go to the old switcher behavior?
The new switcher in 11.10 looks really great, but I feel like it is a loss in productivity to me. I have multiple instances of several applications open at once (especially browsers) many times and I ...
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alt tab switcher effects not working
Yesterday I upgraded Ubuntu from 11.04 to 11.10.
There is a nice effect of alt tab switcher with windows preview in 11.10 but with my system only simple alt tab switcher is working without effects.
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Sometimes the Alt+Tab window switcher gets weird and needs two keypresses to switch windows (the first Alt+Tab only highlights the current window)
This been happening to me once every few days or so, for the last several months. It's rather bizarre.
Sometimes the Alt+Tab window switcher gets weird and it no longer switches windows on the first ...
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How to make Ubuntu Switcher bring to front windows while I'm holding "Alt+Tab"?
Is there a way to have the instant "Bring-to-Front" feature under Ubuntu while "Alt+Tab" are being hold? Just as it is under you know which OS.
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Low resolution icons in the application switcher
I'm on Precise 12.04 with Unity as Shell.
With simple Application Switcher enabled in CCSM, all icons are showing in low resolution. Is there a way to fix this?
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Window switcher for multiple windows of the same app does not appear with mouse hover
After enabling 'resize with secondary click' using GNOME Tweaks, window switcher for multiple windows of the same app does not appear with mouse hover over icon. Any way to get it back? I can get to ...
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How to disable window grouping while Alt-TAB? [duplicate]
How to disable window grouping while Alt-TAB?
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Alt+Tab switcher on primary monitor only
Is it possible in Ubuntu Unity to show Alt+Tab switcher always on primary monitor instead of where mouse pointer is?
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files (Nautilus) appearing twice in alt+tab switcher
I've been getting an odd bug where a single window of files shows up twice in the alt-tab switcher. See screenshots: in expose there is only one instance of files, but in alt-tab there is two. I do ...
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Alternative Application Switcher (Alt+Tab) in a Desktop Environment
If I understand correctly, each DE has its 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, for ...
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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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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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Remove icon borders in Unity application switcher [closed]
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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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 you want ...
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Show windows on all workspaces? (scale addon not working) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Scale mode window on same workspace?
Is there a way to show windows on ALL WORKSPACES? I can use alt+tab, after changing behaviour through ccsm, but Unity switcher only shows ...
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Can I control which screen XFCE shows the alt-tab switcher on? [closed]
I'm trying to transition from Gnome to XFCE and when I use Alt+TAB to cycle between windows, the list of windows shows on the wrong screen (I have an nvidia card with twinview spanning the desktop ...
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How do I disable application groupin in Ubuntu 11.10 ALT + TAB application switcher? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Revert Alt-tab behavior changed in 11.10
In Ubuntu 11.10 the ALT + TAB application switcher shows the applications grouped by executable apparently. I find it very annoying ...
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Some windows not showing up in Alt + Tab
I installed Chromium from the Software Centre yesterday and realised it wasn't showing up in Alt + Tab switching so I decided to go back to Firefox. It turns out Firefox also doesn't show up, but only ...
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Is there an alternative task switcher to KRunner which is focused exclusively on window switching?
Currently on KDE 5 the KRunner dialogue brought up by Alt-F2 key, is not focused solely on desktop windows. It brings shortcuts to programs, search results etc, as well as the active desktop windows.
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Ubuntu 22.04 Wrong Application Switching (Alt + Tab) Behavior
since I switched to Ubuntu 22.04 I noticed some wrong behavior when switching between certain applications.
When I have Firefox opened and press Alt+Tab it opens PyCharm as usual.
Now when I press Alt+...
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How to change the application switcher on Ubuntu 18.04 and 17.10?
Recently, Ubuntu change the UI back to GNOME.
Back on 16.04, when the UI was Unity, in order to change the application switcher, I just needed to install Compiz Config System Manager (ccsm), select ...
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Alt + Tab + arrow keys behavior changed to shift to TTY instead of move between open windows
Alt + Tab is the combination to switch between running programs. Also, if I hold alt after pressing tab once I can then use the arrow keys to go right or left and select the program I need.
But all ...
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Alt+Tab show-up speed is too slow - can I make it instant on Ubuntu 17.10?
Is there any way to change the Alt+Tab speed to show up to instant in Ubuntu 17.10? I previously used 16.04 and I was somehow able to adjust the speed with compiz I believe, but since Ubuntu 17.10 ...
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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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CopyQ Window visible on ALT+TAB
Since some days CopyQ is visible if I use ALT+TAB:
This was different in the past.
I think it does not make sense to show this window. You usually use a shortcut to open
the clipboard manager.
How to ...
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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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New Application Switcher gone and is now ugly
When I installed Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2, during live-CD install, I tried out the new application switcher and it worked beautifully. After the installation is complete, the new application switcher is ...
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How do I use the scroll wheel click to close apps displayed on Alt+Tab on Ubuntu 18.04?
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.
One feature I miss a lot from Windows 10 is being able to Alt+Tab then use the scroll wheel click to close multiple applications without navigating to them.
The ...
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Alt-Tab and Workspace Switcher shortcuts aren't working on Xubuntu 21.10
I have switched from Ubuntu Desktop to Xubuntu desktop because Ubuntu no longer supports desktop icons. Unfortunately, in the move I seem to have lost the ability to cycle windows with Alt+Tab and the ...
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Make alt-tab sequential, not 'sticky'
I am running 20.10 with ubuntu-desktop.
Default alt-tab behaviour is "go back to the last program."
For a thought experiment let's say there are four programs open on my desktop.
Like ...
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ALT-tab glitch on secondary user-account
On my main account, Alt-Tab works just fine, however, I just created a second user, and the application switcher is completely messed up, there seem to be two interfaces displayed on top of each other,...
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Revert Alt+Tab to switch between applications only
In Ubuntu 14.04, Alt+Tab would always switch to different a application. This seems to no longer be the default in 16.04.
The behavior was that if:
I have multiple terminal windows open
focus on one ...
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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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Unity-2D uses old gnome style application switcher
Since I upgraded to the new Ubuntu 12.04, I have been getting the old gnome style Alt-tab switcher instead of the new one. Is there any package that I need to install for the same? I am using Unity-2d....
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(22.10) "include applications from each monitor only" setting in "settings" -> "multitasking" does not work
Under settings -> multitasking there is an option all the way at the end under application switching titled Include applications from each monitor only.
Expected behavior, from what it sounds like, ...
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