Bug 711251

Summary:	alt+shift+tab to go back in the gnome-shell / mutter tab switcher doesn't work
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jean-François Fortin Tam <nekohayo>
Component:	gnome-settings-daemon	Assignee:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	bnocera, danw, fedora-bugs, rstrode, tiagomatos
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2011-06-07 00:36:42 UTC

I have two computers running Fedora 15, fully up to date.

When you press alt+tab, you can usually go back using ctrl+shift+tab.

For some reason, this works on one of my two computers but not on the other. I can't figure out what would be the difference between the two. How should I troubleshoot this?

Comment 1 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2011-06-07 00:48:41 UTC

And for what it's worth, the computer this works on is a desktop an the one where it doesn't is a thinkpad.

Furthermore, there seems to be another somewhat similar bug, in reverse: keyboard shortcuts like ctrl+c/ctrl+x/ctrl+v/ctrl+f don't work in Nautilus on the desktop, but they work with Nautilus on the thinkpad.

The desktop computer is running a PAE kernel and the thinkpad is running the generic kernel.

Comment 2 Rui Matos 2011-07-02 20:51:50 UTC

Does running

$ gconftool-2 -u /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_windows_backward

fix the problem for you?

Comment 3 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2011-07-02 21:16:54 UTC

Yes, unsetting that key solves the problem. 

Now why does a gconf key for Metacity even influence the behavior of Mutter?

Comment 4 Rui Matos 2011-07-02 22:08:42 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Yes, unsetting that key solves the problem. 
> 
> Now why does a gconf key for Metacity even influence the behavior of Mutter?

Because that's how it was implemented. Now please close this bug (which is filled against the wrong component anyway).