Re: Is this an 'Alt+Tab' Bug?

["Diego Escalante" <diego aureal com pe>]

Yes that indeed happens, and now that you say it I noted that it's
pretty annoying.
I also miss the "raise on mouse-over-while-dragging" feature in
metacity (very much like the MS Windows behavior).

I can't remember that click+alt+tab ever worked however.

On 11/29/06, Santanu Chatterjee <thisissantanu gmail com> wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> Could you please suggest a workaround to the following
> problem?
>
> Problem in gist:
> In recent GNOME releases, 'Alt+Tab' does not seem to work
> when any mouse button is pressed.
>
> Let me explain the problem I am facing due to this:
>
> Suppose I intend to play a group of ogg files I have opened in
> a nautilus window.
>
> Suppose the desktop is so cluttered that I am hardly seeing the
> totem window open somewhere in the Desktop.
>
> So I select the group of files with my mouse, drag them a little
> but not enough to take them away from the nautilus window,
> but since I cannot view the totem window, I cannot drop them
> directly onto totem.
>
> So, while holding down the mouse button, I use 'Alt+Tab' to
> cycle to totem, and once totem is visible, I release the mouse
> button on totem, so that the totem playlist is populated with
> the selected files. Problem solved.
>
> However, with Fedora 6, Ubuntu Edgy, etc. that have the latest
> GNOME, I cannot follow the above technique.
> This is because when I select a group of files/folders in nautilus,
> and start dragging them, 'Alt + Tab' becomes ineffective until
> I release the mouse. But it used to work in my earlier Debian Sarge
> installation.
>
> I verified this problem even on my Dapper machine at
> University as well.
>
> I think this is a GNOME related issue.
> Could you please verify if this occurs on your installation too?
> If so, I would be very grateful if you could suggest any workaround.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Santanu
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