gnome: leave <alt>+<tab> keyboard shortucut for applications

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 04:20:32PM +0000, Peter Daum wrote:
> I am normally a die-hard fvwm user who just installed ubuntu on a
> laptop (I just wanted to get the machine up and running as quickly as
> possible and hoped this was a good way).
> 
> One thing that is driving me crazy, is that I can't get gnome to pass
> <alt>-<tab> on to applications.

I usually use <esc><tab> instead of <alt-tab> in applications that
support it (e.g. all terminal applications and gvim).

> There is a promising entry in gnome's
> keyboard shortcut editor named "move between windows with popup"
> (Default binding: alt-tab), but it looks like this is just fake:
> independent of the setting, I always get the gnome window switcher,
> when I press <alt><tab> or <ctrl><alt><tab>.
>
> Does anybody know a way how to get rid of this?
> (Gnome 2.24.1/Ubuntu 08.10)

Do you use Compiz?  It could be that it's using a different place for
storing its keybinding configuration.  If you install
compizconfig-settings-manager, you can probably find it.

Marius Gedminas
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