Alt+Tab on screen display not disappearing

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:15:41AM -0500, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone else has experienced in F18 (GNOME3.6) a
> weird bug where the alt+tab switcher does not disappear?
> 
> When it happens, i can press press alt+tab again and other switcher
> is displayed under (z-index wise) the one already on the screen. If
> i keep pressing alt+tab, these layer up also.
> 
> The annoying part is that when you go to restart the shell, (with
> alt+f2), that overlay does not get keyboard focus, so you can't
> restart it from there. The only way to restart the shell is to
> switch to another tty, and kill the gnome-shell process with kill -9
> 
> anyone else experiencing this issue?

I had this happen a few weeks back but wrote it off as a heisenbug
because for instance, I had numerous updates applied without
restarting my session.  I haven't seen it since, but it was precisely
the symptoms you just identified.

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