Bug 156434

Summary:	Box Switch Window Management effect uses alt+tab but not alt+shift+tab shortcuts
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Jake <kde>
Component:	compositing	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Jake 2008-01-23 05:45:10 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

The box switch effect in plasma appears to only have key bindings to move forward through application list and not backwards. Please setup alt+shift+tab to cycle backwards through the list as is commonly done.

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-01-23 05:59:49 UTC

this is in kwin4, actually. changing components.

Comment 2 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-01-23 06:01:14 UTC

i hope this is the right sub-component... =)

Comment 3 Andreas Pakulat 2008-01-23 19:38:11 UTC

And its a duplicate, though I don't quite understand why it doesn't work. Worked for me last time I tried it due to the workaround that was added before 4.0.0 release.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153211 ***

Comment 4 Jake 2008-01-23 20:25:14 UTC

This is not a duplicate of bug 153211. My keyboard works fine after pressing alt+shift+tab. It just does not reverse through the alt tab 'box switch'er.

Comment 5 Andreas Pakulat 2008-01-23 21:55:47 UTC

Hmm, ok. It works for me though and always did since sometime before christmas. First thing you should check is wether the shortcut is actually set in the systemsettings dialog (under keyboard & mouse, IIRC).

Comment 6 Jake 2008-01-23 23:16:34 UTC

I went to double check the default binding as you suggested and my kde4 session failed to load so i just deleted ~/.kde4 and now it loaded with the new defaults.

Upon doing this, the box switcher now works properly. Don't know anymore than that and the fact that I have not changed any key bindings in kde4. So your guess is as good as mine.

On a side note, I noticed that I am unable to change any bindings, so now I'm off to look for a report on that.