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Alt+tab generally switches between windows, and I've found out that it works fine as long as the mouse pointer isn't in the middle of the screen. If it is, alt+tab switches to the last used window, but after half a second, it switches focus to the window, the mouse pointer is pointing at!

Am I the only one who finds that behavior extremely annoying? I mean, I know I can avoid that by parking my mouse above or below the alt-tab window line, but I fail to see how anyone could want this behavior.

This problem is reminiscent of this one from eight years ago, only it doesn't involve the mouse pointer. Is it really the same problem, or is this a different one?

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  • The behaviour you describe is corresponding with the Window focus option "Focus on Hover". Default is "Click to Focus". Check the setting in Gnome Tweaks, Windows tab. – vanadium Sep 27 '20 at 10:13
  • Hm, just checked - click to focus is actually selected. Maybe I just have an overly sensitive mouse pad? – OZ1SEJ Sep 29 '20 at 08:45
  • You can check this by temporarily turning off tap to click: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click false – vanadium Sep 29 '20 at 08:59

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As proposed by @vanadium, this is the way to go when I thought my mouse pad was dead:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click false

Although, as it should, this disables the desired effect of tap-to-click, so this should be a temporary workaround.

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