I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity.
Switching between applications (Alt + Tab) works, but switching between windows of one application (Alt + ') doesn't. Tried to assign Alt + ' switching to another shortcut (Super + ', Ctrl + ', Alt + F1, using system settings) but nothing works.
After install, everything was working fine.
I have '
(apostrophe) instead of `
. To get that, I edited files in the /etc/X11/xkb/symbols. Of course, if this matters.
Seems like there is a problem with assigning shortcuts using system settings. When I assign between windows of the same application to Alt + Tab, it still switches between different applications. No idea what's going on.
UPDATE: The problem is fixed.
I've been changing different settings of my keyboard, and one of the settings changed was XKBMODEL. I set it to "latitude" (thought it would fit better, that was really stupid). After I changed it back to "pc104", everything worked normally again.
Thanks everybody for your attention!
UPDATE 2: The `
symbol still needs to be in it's place for US layout. For Russian I was able to leave '
assigned to "TLDE" button.
UPDATE 3: Seems like I have got the same problem with "Switch between windows of the same application immediately" (which is Alt + Esc by default). It doesn't work, and assigning it to another shortcut doesn't help. Any suggestions?
Best Answer
This was my problem too.
Alt+<key above tab>
didn't work to switch windows in the current application.In addition, when i pressed and held down the
super
key to see the unity shortcuts, normally one would see this:I'm assuming that is for a US keyboard? I stole the screenshot from another post, and on my danish keyboard it now shows
Alt + Onehalf
.But when I had this problem, I did not see the line pointed to by the red arrow!!!
So check if you see a keyboard shortcut for "Switch windows of current application". If you don't this is for you:
The fix was as hinted at above to change the
XKBMODEL
setting in/etc/default/keyboard
where I changed fromXKBMODEL="microsoft4000"
toXKBMODEL="pc105"
.I did that and ran
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
. Not sure this last step was required.Then I needed to reboot.
Now it works.