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    Broken ALT+TAB in HH

    Configuration = Kubuntu HH 8.04
    In keyboard shortcuts I have ALT+TAB assign to "walk through windows" action and ALT+SHIFT+TAB to "walk through windows (reverse)".
    Let's say I have 5 windows on desktop1.
    If I press only once ALT+TAB I go from current window (window1) to next window (window2). I press once more ALT+TAB : surprise - I go from window2 back to window1).
    If I do the same thing but with ALT+SHIFT+TAB I correctly go through all windows (from window5 to window4 ... down to window1).
    It seems like a bug to me. Can you confirm, please, cause I couldn't find it reported anywhere.

    thanks a bunch

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    Re: Broken ALT+TAB in HH

    It might seem a minor thing, but it's quite annoying once you have this.

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    Re: Broken ALT+TAB in HH

    I confirm that the same thing happens in compiz, when setting up a mouse binding for the "next window" action. Thanks to anyone who can help me fix this annoying thing.

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    Re: Broken ALT+TAB in HH

    Quote Originally Posted by realn View Post
    I confirm that the same thing happens in compiz, when setting up a mouse binding for the "next window" action. Thanks to anyone who can help me fix this annoying thing.
    My keyboard shortcuts are a big mess now. Now, this thing also started annoying me.
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    Re: Broken ALT+TAB in HH

    Quote Originally Posted by realn View Post
    Let's say I have 5 windows on desktop1.
    If I press only once ALT+TAB I go from current window (window1) to next window (window2). I press once more ALT+TAB : surprise - I go from window2 back to window1).
    Think of your windows as a stack of cards, numbered 1-5.
    Pressing Alt+Tab pulls the second card from the stack and places it on top of the deck. The cards are now renumbered to reflect their current positions. When you press Alt+Tab again, you're just pulling the second card from the stack and placing it on top.
    Confused yet?
    If you want to pull the third card from the stack, press and hold Alt and press Tab twice. The holding of Tab tells the computer that you're still in the window-switcher, so it now interprets the second Tab push as an instruction to go to the next window down in the stack.

    Does it make sense?
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    Re: Broken ALT+TAB in HH

    Hi, thanks a lot for your explanation. Well, it makes sense, except that this is not what I want. What I want is to go to the third window in the list by ALT+TAB+TAB with NO reordering of the windows, so that when I press another ALT+TAB go to the fourth window in the list.

    So, here is how it's done:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=597209

    Simply change in ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc

    the line

    AltTabStyle=KDE

    into
    AltTabStyle=CDE

    Apparently this can be done by unchecking the "show windows list" in windows behavior, but I find it STUPID (I apologize for my sincerity). Displaying (or not) the windows list SHOULD have nothing to do with the navigation scheme through that list.
    So, my next question, how can I have the CDE style and still having the windows list displayed?

    Thanks a lot!

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    Re: Broken ALT+TAB in HH

    Marked as solved.

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