Archive for February, 2013

Unity crashes on Alt-Tab (Ubuntu 11.10)

Thursday, February 21st, 2013

So, there’s a bug, where Unity (Ubuntu’s window manager) crashes on Alt-Tab. It’s been fixed for a year now in the newer Ubuntu’s, but those of us running the old stuff… we’re stuck.

Unless, of course, we follow the advice in one of the comments:

  • Install “compizconfig-settings-manager”
  • run “ccsm”
  • go to “Ubuntu Unity Plugin” -> Switcher
  • disable all key bindings.
  • Go back to the main screen and enable “Static Application Switcher”.
    (If you do it the other way around, you will get segfaults.)

It gives you a more limited switcher (only to windows on current desktop). On the other hand, this one switches to windows instead of applications — so no more annoyance trying to switch to the right window of an application that you’re running 10 times (such as a terminal window).