Alt + Tab to rotate through full size windows instead of thumbnails

David C. Curtis dave.c.curtis at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 01:59:29 UTC 2012


On 12-02-07 11:28 PM, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am looking for a way to get the old alt+tab behavior where I can
> rotate through full
> size windows instead of thumbnail or shrinked size windows.
>
> I am using ubuntu 11.10 64bit desktop.
>
> Thanks
>

If you go into compiz config settings manager, you might need to install 
it, and enable 'shift switcher' under the windows management group you 
can use super-tab (windows key-tab) to switch windows on the current 
viewport and alt-super-tab to cycle through all open windows. If you 
really wish to change the key bindings to alt-tab you'll need to go into 
the unity-plugin under the desktop group to disable or rebind the keys 
for the current actions.

They flip by in a cool animated way too!

If you do this, I would leave the terminate key for expo (the viewport 
switcher) intact. (It'll ask you what you want to do.) And for Pete's 
sake make a note of what you change, you can really mess compiz up if 
you forget what you've done.

HTH

Dave





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