Growing frustration with Gnome Shell
Steven Stern
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Thu Aug 11 22:03:10 UTC 2011
On 08/11/2011 03:37 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 11:44 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
>> I've been using Gnome Shell since the alphas of F15 and I keep hoping
>> that a few things get fixed. I don't know if they're general problems
>> or widespread. I've make a point of putting things in Bugzilla. But, my
>> problems are not going away.
>>
>> Big problems:
>>
>> 1. Pressing ALT-TAB crashes the shell.
>> 2. Once the screen blanking has been in effect for more than 2 hours
>> (or so) I have to use SSH to kill the shell in order to regain access to
>> the system.
> Not that this will solve your problem but on my machine when I type
> ALT-TAB , I get a window with icons for all the applications alive in
> the workspace and I can pick the one I want to run on top.
>
>
That's how it's supposed to work *and used to work* but at some point in
the not too distant past, pressing Alt-Tab causes the shell to crash and
be recreated. I'm tired of filing bug reports that are ignored.
--
-- Steve
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