Alt-tab not working

[grkuntzmd]

I reinstalled kubuntu 9.10 yesterday after screwing up my NVidia drivers. After the install, the alt-tab key combination does not work -- it does nothing.

I checked the KDE system settings->Desktop, but could not see any problems.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[mrboojive]

Go to System Settings > Keyboard & Mouse > Global Keyboard Shortcuts and select KWin in the drop down menu. Is the shortcut for "Walk Through Windows" set to Alt+Tab? If not, try setting it to Alt+Tab and see if it works.

[grkuntzmd]

It was already set to Alt-Tab.

[mrboojive]

Is the OS recognizing Alt+Tab at all? If you set the Alt+Tab combo to a different action, does it perform that action?

[grkuntzmd]

I changed it to Shift-Ctrl-B and it works. Something is making Alt-Tab not work.

I ran /usr/bin/setxkbmap and now Alt-Tab works. Go figure...

Thanks.

[fermulator]

confirmed -- this has happened on various machines running 9.10 karmic.

All of a sudden (root cause not yet known) the ALT+TAB functionality stops working. This is terrible

[imanumber]

I'm having the same problem.

KDE user here. It was working and then it stopped after a few days. Nothing else seems to be affected.


I can use alt-F2 to bring up the run dialog and ctrl-tab still cycles tabs in the browser, but the combo doesn't work.

If I try to bind something else to alt-tab the program tells me that it is already bound to cycle windows, so it is bound correctly.

Very frustrating.

[nyhm]

I'm familiar with GNOME on Debian, but brand new to Ubuntu (9.10).

I found that with compiz activated (that is, "desktop effects" not set to None), alt-tab ONLY works via one of the compiz-configured application switchers... all of which are nearly intolerable to me.

If I turn off all compiz-supplied application switchers, alt-tab still doesn't work.

I have to completely disable compiz (System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects->None) for GNOME's default alt-tab to work at all.

Is this a known problem/solution? Should a bug be made against compiz, requesting that it pass-through alt-tab to the window manager if all application switchers are turned off?

[asciimo]

Yeah, just happened to me. Followed by a sudden claustrophobic sensation.

I ran /usr/bin/setxkbmap and now Alt-Tab works. Go figure...

That worked for me! Thanks, grkuntzmd.

[libor.hudlik]

Hallo, I'm an Ubuntu user (gnome). Alt+Tab stopped work suddenly - after some update.

This helped me:

System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects->None

In the Visual Effects there wasn't anything selected. I selected None and the Alt+Tab started to work, then I switched to Normal. Maybe you can select any choice there.

Thanks, Nyhm.