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Ubuntu 12.04 Alt-Tab broken in Gnome?

Asked by Mike

I just upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04 and use the Gnome interface rather than Unity. Pressing Alt-Tab to switch between windows no longer works, and often the system responds as if only Tab had been pressed. A quick search revealed a few other postings and one bug report that has been closed for not being a bug (!?). This is terribly frustrating - does anyone know what's going on here?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I suggest you run:

ccsm

and enable the ring switcher, you can set the key shortcut to ALT+TAB and it should be ok.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#2

The bug you've linked was a dupe of the one I've linked now.
The bug is still open, confirmed and incl. variants of workarounds.
Gnome-classic or -Shell isn't standard setup bug fixes may take a bit longer.

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Jonathan Roberts (jona) said : 		#3

Click System Settings -> Keyboard -> Navigation -> Switch Applications:
Type Alt Tab
Done

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