Enabling window switcher in Ubuntu Budgie 17.04
I have Ubuntu budgie 17.04 (budgie-desktop 10.2.9). While pressing Alt+Tab to switch between the windows, the windows are switched randomly and I am not able to select which window to shift.
This feature was available in Ubuntu 16.04 but not in Ubuntu-budgie-17.04.
How to resolve this?
This is the hopeful solution to the problem. Thanks to @Dustin Krysak and @David Mohammed of Ubuntu-budgie community…!
- Go into the budgie-welcome application, ensure that the backports PPA is enabled. Then update. This feature was re added in Budgie 10.3.
or
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntubudgie/backports
- Then
sudo apt update
&&
sudo apt install budgie-desktop budgie-indicator-applet
Log-out and Log-in.
If the above steps donot work…..then…
sudo apt update
&&
sudo apt dist-upgrade
It will upgrade the system to latest version of budgie-desktop. The switcher feature was added in version > 10.3.*
Not literally an answer to your textual question, but an answer to what you refer to in the image:
Window Previews
In the meantime, Ubuntu Budgie got his own Window Previews (17.04 >):
Usage is simple: after adding the applet to the panel, simply
- press Alt+Tab to get an overview of all windows (on current workspace), or
- Super+Tab to get an overview of all windows of the currently active window’s application.
Simply Tab will subsequently browse through the overview.
Installation
…is best done from Budgie Welcome > Install Software > Budgie Applets
