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How to disable window grouping while Alt-TAB?

Byte Commander
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    Unity or GNOME? Screenshot? – heynnema Aug 15 '17 at 15:48
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    In Unity, if you keep holding down Alt and press Tab, the application switcher opens and shows you a list of application icons. If multiple windows of one application are open on the current workspace, those will be grouped to the same icon, with some small white arrows to indicate the number. By pressing Tab repeatedly you can cycle through the icons. If you wait on a grouped icon for more than about half a second, it will expand and show the individual windows instead. – Byte Commander Aug 15 '17 at 15:52
  • You could also use window spreading with Super+W, showing you a small preview of all open windows through which you can cycle with Tab and focus the highlighted one with Enter. – Byte Commander Aug 15 '17 at 15:54
  • For Gnome, you might want to have a look at https://askubuntu.com/q/747541/367990 – Byte Commander Aug 15 '17 at 15:58
  • @ByteCommander cool, but I don't need this (and don't know who does). I need to disable grouping at all, just 1D list of windows to switch between. No groups. – Dims Aug 15 '17 at 16:54
  • @heynnema I don't know; how to determine? I just made fresh installation of Ubuntu. They didn't have word Unity in installer, I checked Ubuntu desktop. – Dims Aug 15 '17 at 16:56
  • @ByteCommander I don't need preview either. Plain 1D Alt-Tab allows to switch blindly. This is more comfortable then explore miniature previews. – Dims Aug 15 '17 at 16:57
  • @Redbob "duplicated" question was asked 6 years ago and entitled with 11.10 version of Ubuntu. I can't accept it. – Dims Aug 15 '17 at 16:58
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    @Dims The accepted answer to the linked duplicate question still applies. Just the labels for the Unity application switcher shortcuts changed slightly. – Byte Commander Aug 15 '17 at 17:09

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