Alt-Tab looses focus and have to hit Alt-Grave Accent to get focus
- by John Hamill
Alt-Tab looses focus and have to hit Alt-Grave Accent to get focus
I have ubuntu 12.4 with Unity window manager.
I have a gvim window and a firefox window open.
I hit Alt-Tab to switch between the two.
Sometimes the gvim window doesn't have focus
and I have to hit Alt-GraveAccent (Alt-`)
to get the gvim window to have focus (ie: have the cursor a solid white square instead of a outline of a square)
I do this to move between firefox where I highlight some text and do a copy,
then Alt-Tab to gvim and do a paste.
Sometimes the focus isn't in gvim and the paste doesn't work. I then have to do an
Alt-graveAccent to get the focus into gvim or click the gvim window.
These extra steps slow my process down and it makes it difficult to get into a smooth
rythum.
I saw this:
ALT+TAB loses focus
Maybe the Alt-GraveAccent may help someone.
It's a unity bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1035628
Your best bet is to wait until an update comes through fixing it.