10.7 Alt tab looses redirection when desktop closed

I often use alt tab to switch between applications. If I open a number of applications in one desktop and then switch the applications to fullscreen. I can switch between the applications using alt-tab. When I close the desktop from Mission control, the alt tab no longer redirects to the application. I guess it is a feature bug that may have residual effects on other programs.

I have figured it out. The checkbox in mission control for "When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application" needs to be checked.

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I think I have said. When I close with Firefox 4, I no longer get to keep my tabs for the next time I start up. I think your new version lost it, because it worked until the moment I upgraded.

Is there another solution to get the old method? I did like the save option, where Firefox opened the saved tabs, but when not saved opened the default home page(s).

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Bugs: Virtual Desktops in an alpha test non-usable kind of state where it can hardly be tested (where the heck am I, ALT+TAB, and so on)

Thus: This feature cannot be considered valid before it is actually being widely used and tested by people (testers).
It's really hard to test virtual desktops right now. Probably because its too incomplete to be tested. Too much alpha kind of state.
Triggering a shortcut in Internet favorites does not open a new instance of IE on the same virtual desktop - but on another different desktop.
ALT+TAB slides virtual desktops - but sometimes it does app switching ... both ... so when does it work one way ... and then another.
Going to a virtual desktop I see all the open on the taskbar for another context (i.e. another virtual desktop). Click the icon of that application I am on virtual desktop 1 ... clicking an instance ... I go to another virtual desktop where that app lives.
It feels like a really weird universe ... where you go to strange behaving meta-context where sometimes up is down and down is up --- and then down is down and up is up ... and then you enter the door of cockpit of spaceship 1 and comes out in the cockpit
of spaceship 2 ....................... then controls are even more weird. You do not know which space ship you are controlling for sure (up is up and down is up .... 1+2=-11) (i.e. non-intuitive)

kaeandcolesmon,
If you open the recovery drive (partition) it should only have a single folder (Recovery).
To make sure that your not saving restore points to that drive.
See:
Start, Control Panel, System, System Protection tab. Make sure the D drive partition is set to OFF so that it does not save there.
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When alt + tab between applications firefox freezes to a black blank screen and will not move. The only response it will allow is the close option after right clicking on the task bar in English

I normally have several applications running at the same time, some of them are running 24/7/365.
When accessing the applications its easier to alt+tab between them. On the occasions that I can actually get Firefox to open and stay open it always freezes and remains immovable on the screen after switching to another program.
Firefox goes black except for the border and the close button at the top right. The other buttons disappear. Even after waiting for a period of time it does not clear.
The freeze can occur either on the first switch or second switch. However, it always happens.

Have also since found out that to start FF4 in safe mode you just hold shift whilst double-clicking the icon. We only find these things out after the event, murphy's law!

What is that screen u get when u press alt+tab?

just curious..... when I press alt - tab the whole screen dimms and an image of 2 cogs appear.... what's that about?

Do you mean command+tab? If so, the window that comes up is the application switcher window. Continue holding down command, while pressing tab to switch between applications (release tab when the application that you want to activate is highlighted).
Option (Alt) + Tab is not a standard OS X shortcut.

Why do I have to Alt+Tab after startup to interact with my desktop?

after I restart my machine, I always have to Alt+Tab to interact with all of my shortcuts on desktop and taskbar. I have run both avast antivirus and superantispyware programs, and both said there are no bugs... ???? whats going on????

How does Firefox enter that problem?

Built my desktop and tablet site in Muse. Desktop works fine, tablet version does not redirect when viewed on iPad.

Do I have to upload the tablet version separately or does Muse 'see' the new tablet version as changed content?
Either way, I need help since my iPad version goes to the desktop version regardless.

Hello,
Please make sure "Redirect from desktop" is checked in site properties for tablet. you can find this from File > Site Properties > layout > Tablet.
Please look at the screenshot as well.
Once the option is checked re-upload the site and then check on iPad. Please share the site URL if the issue still persist.
Regards
Vivek

After Effects ends a render when I alt tab to Premiere

If I have a render in progress and I alt tab or to premiere or open premiere/media encoder, the render in after effects wit hthe "happy ring of success" noise. but the file is incoplete and the render has stopped part way done.
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help? isnt helping my multi tasking.

Well, what kind of workflow do you use? What footage? What settings? Sounds like you use DynamicLink in some fashion and there is a conflict with concurrent access of the same process...
Mylenium

Repeated Delays when Alt-Tabbing Back to Premiere Pro CS4

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David Salahi

>brand new Core i7 940

[Solved] Alt-Tab window switching no longer working after update (JWM)

The next issue I am trying to straighten out after a recent, long-overdue pacman -Syu, is the loss of window-switching functionality using the alt-tab key combination. This is under the JWM window manager, by the way. The alt key seems to work as expected when, for example, firefox has focus: if I hit alt left arrow, the browser goes back to the preceding page. But if I hit alt and tab together, say, in the browser or when a terminal has focus, it seems to be read as though I were pressing only the tab key. So, with two windows maximized on the desktop, the alt-tab combination does not toggle between them. If the terminal has focus I can see the cursor jumping over a tab space each time I press the key combination.
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James
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Thank you for your input, anonymous_user. I decided, on reading it, to compare my .jwmrc with the /etc/system.jwmrc file. I noted that, in my .jwmrc, the keybindings section was empty, while that section in the /etc/system.jwmrc had several entries--and even one that seemed to refer to the alt-tab key combination. So I copied that section into my .jwmrc, restarted JWM, and the key combination now seems to be working as it should. Granted, it's a bit strange in that it doesn't open some kind of dialog box with the names of open windows, showing you in list form the windows you're scrolling through. But it does take you to other open windows when, after you've hit the tab key one or more times, you release the alt key. So the issue is resolved and was pretty simple.
James

Firefox freezes the computer for about 20-30 seconds (not even Alt+Tab works), the screen blinks black and then it shows the desired page. Does that several times at the beginning, then sort of stabilizes.

Firefox freezes the computer for about 20-30 seconds (not even Alt+Tab works), the screen blinks black and then it shows the desired page. Does that several times at the beginning, then sort of stabilizes.
This happens even if I simply hover the mouse over bookmarks, not even opening a page.
And waiting for this to happen some times or closing and re-opening seems to make it work ok again.
I've already disabled almost all add-ons (I'm using only one for Flash and NoScript right now), reinstalled Firefox (8.0.1), restoring only the bookmarks from an older version.

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Alt tabbing with full screen games in Gnome Shell

I'm using gnome shell 3.6.2 and whenever I launch a full screen game (like heroes of newerth) I can't alt-tab out of it or change to a different work space. I can do this in XFCE, KDE (with compositing disabled) and unity (have a press it a few times) but I can't do this in gnome shell. Is there a workaround I can use (besides starting it in a different X server).
EDIT: I tried the package sdl-nokeyboardgrab and the libx11-nokeyboard grab and tried running hon as:
LD_PRELOAD=libX11-nokeynomouse.so HoN/hon.sh
but it still doesn't work. When I alt-tab/change workspace it shows the adwaita cursor (instead of the HoN one) and kinda blinks the gnome shell desktop.
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Hello bferretti...sorry to hear you're having issues with the hot corners.
I was playing WOW last night and started playing around with the video options. I noticed there are two full screen options now - Fullscreen and Windowed Fullscreen. If in Fullscreen the hot corners are disabled for me. If I use Windowed Fullscreen then the hot corners are still active.
Not sure if you've taken a look at that...but just thought I'd pass along that info.
Thanks!

Alt-Tabbing on Mac?

I know to use applekey and tab to browse through open apps while on desktop but the issue i'm having i when i run WOW and want to (alt-tab) back to desktop to view webpages,ventrio while WOW is still running and thenswitch back.
If anyone could help me out that would be great. FYI i love the Mac much better then windows just having this issue with that one part.

To alt-tab in World of Warcraft,first hit Command-M. That puts the app in windowed mode.then you can access the dock.

Openbox ALT+TAB "stuck"

In the last few weeks, I've noticed that when I hit ALT+TAB in openbox the window list will occasionally become "stuck" and remain on the screen. I can hit ENTER and it will disappear. This doesn't always happen but it does happen often enough to be annoying. The normal behaviour is that the window list disappears when I let go of ALT.
I haven't changed my config, only done system updates every week.
What's going on?

Do you have any key chains defined? http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Bindings#Key_chains
If yes, try disabling them. Does it happen when the mouse cursor is on the switching panel?
<keybind key="A-Tab">
<action name="NextWindow"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="A-S-Tab">
<action name="PreviousWindow"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-A-Tab">
<action name="NextWindow">
<panels>yes</panels>
<desktop>yes</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>
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10.7 Alt tab looses redirection when desktop closed

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