Alt tab question for 12.04 LTS

[NoOp]

On 11/02/2012 08:38 PM, Linda wrote:
> This is mostly a just curious question.
>    I have five machines now that have been migrated to 12.04 
> LTS from 10.04 LTS.  They are using Gnome classic. 3 of the 
> machines you can choose alt left mouse click to add 
> launchers to the panel and Alt Tab to cycle through the open 
> terminal windows. For two of them neither works.  Of course 
> one of the machines where it doesn't work is used by someone 
> who loves alt tab to move through windows so I wound up 
> installing compiz so I could set it to use alt tab to switch 
> applications. However I am mystified.  They all have 
> basically the same packages installed and I ran through  all 
> the gnome packages in synaptic and they seem to match.   I 
> actually had uninstalled the compiz stuff off of all the 
> machines because two older machines were freezing and it was 
> one of the suggested causes.  Any idea of what program or 
> configuration setting is allowing the alt tab to work on 
> some of the computers? Also any idea how I can get the alt 
> left mouse click to bring up the panel menu on the two 
> machines where it doesn't work?
>                    Thanks
>                     Linda
> 

This might be on interest:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/971051
[No Alt+Tab in gnome classic session (switcher plugin not loaded)]