Bug 711251 - alt+shift+tab to go back in the gnome-shell / mutter tab switcher doesn't work
Summary: alt+shift+tab to go back in the gnome-shell / mutter tab switcher doesn't work
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 15
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Bastien Nocera
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-07 00:36 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2011-07-05 19:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-07-05 19:15:18 UTC
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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).


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