Bug 178930

Summary:	Remapped Alt+` shortcut fails in application switcher
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Ron Pepper <feffer777>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, kde, mensch
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Ron Pepper 2008-12-28 00:09:40 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

When using the app-switcher (Alt-Tab), additional Tabs cycle thru open apps, and the shortcut Alt-Shift-Tab cycles in reverse. However, I do not like the reverse shortcut because it uses 3 keys and I find it inconvenient. So I remap this shortcut to Alt+`

This works fine in kde-3, MacOSX and WinXP, but fails in kde4. I reported this in a KDE forum:  http://forum.kde.org/application-switcher-behavior-issue-t-22088.html#pid28567   and the mod who replied found the same behavior and requested that I report it.

Alt-Tab switching is one of the few shortcut similarities between common gui's, so this is important to those of us who work in mixed networks. Thank you.

Comment 1 Dario Andres 2008-12-28 01:26:24 UTC

Here using:

Qt: 4.4.3 + qt-copy-patches-889120
KDE: 4.1.86 (KDE 4.1.86 (KDE 4.2 >= 20081221))
kdelibs svn rev. 902031 / kdebase svn rev. 902032
on ArchLinux x86_64 - Kernel 2.6.27.10

I can configure the global shortcuts for "Walking Throught Windows (Reverse)" for KWin to something else (like Alt+1 or Alt+(KeyAboveTab)) and after restarting KWin it works OK in the Alt+Tab application switcher :) 

(Keyboard shortcuts got reworked a lot for KDE4.2)

Comment 2 Dario Andres 2008-12-28 01:28:25 UTC

And that also works (for example) in the Cover Switch application switcher when compositing is enabled :) 

Can anyone else confirm this ?

Comment 3 lucas 2008-12-28 03:30:41 UTC

Possibly related to the bug that prevents the forward switching from being changed to a different shortcut. Can't find the report for that one though at the moment.

Comment 4 Ron Pepper 2008-12-30 00:50:11 UTC

> I can configure the global shortcuts for "Walking Throught Windows (Reverse)"
> for KWin to something else (like Alt+1 or Alt+(KeyAboveTab)) and after
> restarting KWin it works OK in the Alt+Tab application switcher :) 
> 
> (Keyboard shortcuts got reworked a lot for KDE4.2)
 
OK, after remapping and RESTARTING KWin, the Alt+`(KeyAboveTab) works for cycling through windows in reverse. I think I will still call this unresolved in KDE 4.1 at least because normally remapping shortcuts works immediately and does not require an app restart. Many users will not know to do this and give up on remapping the shortcut.

Comment 5 Marc de Bruijn 2009-02-09 10:41:30 UTC

I have this problem with both back and forward cycling in 4.2 on Debian as well. Restarting doesn't seem to work, I have to remove config files for it to work again. Remapping Alt+Tab or Alt+Shift+Tab to something else and then reverting back to the default keys doesn't work either. This is related to bug report 163732.

Comment 6 Michael Jansen 2009-02-15 01:14:42 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 163732 ***