How to keep the Alt-Tab menu on the second monitor in Ubuntu?

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Published on 2010-04-15T16:58:57Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 17:04 UTC
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I'm running the latest Ubuntu version on my laptop, and every day when I arrive at my office I turn on the laptop and plug everything on. That includes a monitor that happens to be larger than the laptop's monitor.

I always do my work on the desktop monitor, so I'd like for the Alt-Tab menu to always pop-up on this one. Instead, it's configured to pop-up whichever monitor the mouse is on (which makes sense, but doesn't work for me).

Anybody know a way to change that?

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