Why the changes to the 18.04 desktop?

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 09:34 +1100, Owen Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 09:19, Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Odd the alt-tab behaviour in 20.04 has never been anything but
> > changing the focus for me on multiple installs of different
> > flavours.
> > 
> > Are you sure you don't have a program or setting somewhere in your
> > profile that's over ridden this default locally?
> 
> Absolutely. I might have picked it up from 18.04 when I upgraded from
> 16.04 -> 20.04 over the weekend, but I would have never assigned this
> myself.

FWIW, I've always used GNOME (GNOME is superior to Unity IMO)
and I've upgraded from 14.04->16.04->18.04->20.04 and my Alt-TAB has
always worked the same way (selects windows/applications).  I've NEVER seen it "toggle window maximize", and my memory ain't great but I'm pretty sure would remember that.

I took a quick look around the intertubes and found comments discussing
Alt-TAB and how it selects different applications from as far back as
2012, but I wasn't able to find a single report of anyone getting
maximize for Alt-TAB.

I'm not saying that you can't be having this issue, I'm just saying
that no one on the Gnome or Ubuntu development side ever purposefully introduced this behavior, either now or in the past, as far as I can tell.  I'm at a loss as to how it "crept into your default settings".


If you go to the keyboard shortcut manager and look at the settings for
"Switch Windows", is it assigned to Alt-TAB?  Or something else?  If
you look at the "Maximize Window" operations, what are they assigned
to?  Are they at their default values or not (e.g., is there a little
"x" box next to them that says "Reset the shortcut to its default
value" if you hover over it)?