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According to the instructions, we can use system keyboard settings to change key bindings. But I can't find it in keyboard.

I don't know why or how, but the background just disappeared. It's now longer there. I'll keep you posted if I find any more details.

There doesn't seem to be any clear license associated with this extension.

I've adored this extension since I first came across it in GNOME Shell 3.6, and I've had to install this extension manually since the 3.12 update never made it to the GNOME Extensions website (you did submit the update to them, right?)

Anyway, Coverflow Alt+Tab appears pretty broken on GNOME Shell 3.14. When I hit Alt+Tab/Super+Tab/Alt+` and cycle through my windows everything works fine, but as soon as I let go, the animated Clutter window representations don't disappear and block much of my desktop. Mouse input doesn't work, but I can still interact with the Shell fine with keyboard shortcuts (I can even see the Overview fan out when I hit Super), it's just my vision is obscured. Besides the attached screenshot, here is a short video demonstrating this weird behavior: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v0iavw9j3abhbm2/CoverflowAltTab%20Graphical%20Bug.webm?dl=0

Hope you fix this and add GNOME Shell 3.14 support soon! I would hate to see this lovely extension go away.

The extension works great until i reboot. Then if I visit extensions.gnome it appears to be on but it behaves as off. If I toggle the switch it works again. I did not add a permenate trust to this website nor do I have a online gnome account (not sure if that is related).

Hey! I tried changing the shell-version attr in metadata.json, but the effect resulted in graphical artefacts requiring me to restart GNOME Shell for it to regain usability. Its possible that is down to the use of dual GPUs rather than the new shell, hopefully you can work that out better than I :)

Great bit of eyecandy, thanks for your efforts!

p91paul/gnome-shell-extensions-coverflowalttab#13
Activate windows switching mode by Alt+Tab and during Alt button you can press Activities button and hot corner also active.
I think it is wrong behavior.

Thanks.

We should try to see if the extension is gnome-shell 3.8 compatible and update metadata accordingly.

CoverflowAltTab does not work in Cinnamon 3.0 (on Arch).

With multiple moitors Coverflow doesn't work well, especially when monitors have different resolutions.

Since I always hear the same complaints that users want to cycle between windows from all workspaces and the possibility to change the keybindings in system settings is not used to solve that, we should think about providing an easier way to switch the Alt-Tab behaviour.

It would be nice to let the user choose what keybindings are used, and if, for what purpose (switch between windows of current workspace, switch between all windows, switch between application windows).

I am facing issues with having coverflow enabled with the dash to dock extension and the dock appears after every Alt+Tab when in intelligent autohide "dodge windows" is enabled (allows the dock to appear when there is a minimized not-clashing-with-the-dock window). I dunno which extension has a bug so filing them in both repos.

Please update the extension to be compatible with Gnome version 3.20

Mainly, this would be useful for keys 'j' or 'h' (left) and 'k' or 'l' (right). I don't see any plans to use these keys for anything, currently.

With CoverflowAltTab enabled I get permanent CPU-Usage of 50-60% on gnome-shell process. Configuration problem?

Edit: Same problems without CoverflowAltTab. Sorry for the Issue.

The coverflow effect is super nice looking, but the functionality itsn't like Gnome's alt-tab or alt-backtick. It'd be super nice to have that. For example, here's what it would need to do:

• Possible things the plugin can do when switching between applications (alt-tab in my case):*
  • Instead of moving separate windows, you could place windows of the same app
    together in space, then animate the groups together.
  • Instead of drawing windows you could draw the app icons (approximately the
    same size as they appear in Gnome's default alt-tab mechanism, and modify
    the coverflow animation to accomodate the smaller size of the icons. The
    key to this approach would be not to tilt the icons too much, so that they
    can all be seen (that's a key feature of Gnome's alt-tab, which helps
    navigate to the desired app faster).
  • Perhaps, for alt-tab, you could just show Gnome's default alt-tab
    mechanism, and coverflow could be left to animate windows only when using
    alt-backtick to cycle between windows of the same app.
• Possible things the plugin can do when switching between windows of the same app (alt-backtick in my case):*
  • The same as currently, but when selecting a window of a different
    workspace, there needs to be an animation that lets us know that we are
    switching workspaces (similar to Gnome's mechanism where once we let go of
    the keys, our view flies to the other workspace). This is important for
    context.
  • Additionally to the previous idea, there could be an option to cycle only
    between windows of the same app in the current workspace instead of across all workspaces (this is unlike
    Gnome's mechanism, which always cycles between windows of the same app
    regardless of workspace).

Hi
I have an permanent problem on Linux Mint 17.1 cinnamon 64Bit. The Extension does not work and I have an error message on start, something like "Cinnamon has problem starting extension..".
The "Looking Glass" shows an error:
"error t=2015-04-27T20:14:50Z [Extension "[email protected]"]: Extension is not compatible with current Cinnamon version
error t=2015-04-27T20:14:50Z Could not load extension [email protected]".

I have manualy installed it into ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/.

In coverflow mode the windows are distorted because of perspective. For some applications this looks very weird. (e.g. video, photo editing with faces).

A third transition effect would be nice. One that is also symmetric like coverflow (unlike timeline) and non-distorting.

What comes to mind is a stack of cards, similar to what Android 5 and 6 has. Vertically would be nice to see the application title, but with new apps that have headerbars the titlebar is not as important. So a horizontal deck of cards, would use the widescreen computer screens better and still show enough of a window to make it easily identifiable by its content.

in Openbox and macOS its possible to close current selected app in Alt+Tab by Alt+F4. Please, add this feature. Thank you

I've seen you posted on extensions.gnome.org a version with 3.10 compatibility. However, since November 08, no one has reviewed it. I've thinked about opening a bug on the gnome bugzilla, since I cannot comment the review, but probably it's better if the solicitation is sent by you, since you are the actual mantainer.

Hello!

I've recently run into problems with this extension. I've found that when I have the Optistatus extension turned on, your extension no longer works at all, and the native alt-tab functionality is also disabled. Naturally I just leave Optistatus off to solve this, but I thought you might be interested. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help, should you decide to investigate. Other than that little hiccup, it works great for me!

The Optistatus extension can be found here: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/710/optistatus/

I'm mantaining original palatis extension. If you want, you can syncronize your repo with mine https://github.com/p91paul/gnome-shell-extensions-coverflowalttab.
I've added the window icon onto the preview (I see you added this on bottom) and made some bugfixes.
The same way, if it is ok for you, I will carry some of your code for my extension. If we work together, extension will become better.

First of all, thank you for your great work, and I have always loved this extension. Sadly it stopped to work after the upgrade to GNOME 3.14.

But since the 3.14 compatability issue has been fixed by #29 , can you push an update to https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/97/coverflow-alt-tab/ ? So that users can get an update from the official site.

This is a good extension,but unluckily it works not well on my laptop Thinkpad T460p,my system is Fedora 24, the latest version.first I find this extension in extensions.gnome.org, but it cannot be installed,while other extension can , so I have to install manually and enable it , but every time I login in my laptop, it doesn't work , I have to enable it again , unlike other extension I have installed, how can I fix it?

The Readme says there is an extension settings dialog. However there appears to be none using tweak-tool or gnome-shell-extension-prefs.

I was told to post this here

Hi, so I have a 1080p monitor on my left and a 1366x768p primary one, and coverflow/timeline are broken on a multi-monitor setup. Often times my screen "tears" in half while I alt tab. It's hard to explain so here is a video demonstrating it.

It doesn't happen with the normal icon + preview or any other icon + alt tab option, only with coverflow and timeline it happens.

I'm on Kernel 4.4, cinnamon version is Cinnamon 2.8.8 and I'm on intel drivers on Mesa 10.1.3 and I'll check whether this happens on NVIDIA drivers or not

Extension is not loaded on start up or when Gnome Shell is restarted. Works fine otherwise.

Debian 8
GNOME Shell 3.14.4

Hi,
Would it be possible to display all applications in all work spaces instead of all applications in current work space? I haven't run this extension enough to know if this is a feature request or if something is disabled. If this is a new feature, can the switch be put in the settings?

Once again, thanks for making this extension the best!

Ron

The switcher itself works fine but every now and then, quite possibly when Alt+Tabbing repeatedly in succession, windows no longer get rendered until when Gnome Shell is restarted. Other than being invisible and desktop background being shown instead, they function normally. I am not entirely sure if this is related to the extension or not but I've seen the problem multiple times since installing the extension. I am now trying with it disabled.

Today I noticed my system (Fedora 23/Cinnamon) wasn't able to alt-tab at all. When I pressed the key combination, it simply cleared my desktop of active windows instead of animating through the window selection process as usual.

I tried to reload the CoverflowAltTab code (which was installed via spices--not directly from GitHub).

Following this, hitting alt-tab worked again, but it was just the default alt-tab behavior and not the Coverflow style.

I went into Cinnamon's "Extensions" settings, and saw that Coverflow Alt-Tab was disabled with the message: "Problem loading - please check Looking Glass or your system's error log". (NOTE: This message is visible as a tool tip if you mouse over the red dot to the right of the extension name).

I checked Looking Glass, and I see the following messages (actual user name in paths below has been replaced with {user} for privacy):

error t=2016-05-25T19:44:48Z second argument to Lang.bind() must be a function, not undefined
trace t=2016-05-25T19:44:48Z 
<----------------
bind@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:81
KeybinderNewApi.prototype.disable@/home/{user}/.local/share/cinnamon/extensions/[email protected]/keybinder.js:54
Manager.prototype.disable@/home/{user}/.local/share/cinnamon/extensions/[email protected]/manager.js:46
disable@/home/{user}/.local/share/cinnamon/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:60
prepareExtensionUnload@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/extensionSystem.js:32
unloadExtension@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/extension.js:498
reloadExtension@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/extension.js:530
Melange.prototype.ReloadExtension@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/lookingGlass.js:661
_handleMethodCall@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/overrides/Gio.js:261
_wrapJSObject/<@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/overrides/Gio.js:331
---------------->
error t=2016-05-25T19:44:48Z [Extension "[email protected]"]: Failed to evaluate 'disable' function on extension: [email protected]
error t=2016-05-25T19:44:48Z [Extension "[email protected]"]: Extension is not compatible with current Cinnamon version
error t=2016-05-25T19:44:48Z Could not load extension [email protected]

I remember running a "dnf upgrade" either yesterday or the day before, so I suspect this is the reason for the "Extension is not compatible with current Cinnamon version" message. Let me know if you have any advice, or if there's anything you'd like me to test out. In the meantime, at least the default alt-tab behavior is working for me.

Thanks.

What's wrong?
If you switch the windows fast couple of times in a row, then the window in focus goes black.
Windows still do display correctly in the "Cover Flow" or the "Activities" view, but once you click on some window and the window is put on focus, then the window shows black. Once you restart gnome-shell with ctrl-f2 + r then everything returns to normal.

What have you tried?
I have tried to:

1. uninstall extension, disable all other extensions including this one, restart gnome-shell.
2. switch windows fast with alt-tab to check that the issue is not there without this extension
3. install and enable this extension fresh from https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/97/coverflow-alt-tab/
4. switch windows fast with alt-tab to check that the issue is there

Automatically detected errors:

GNOME Shell Extensions did not detect any errors with this extension.

Gnome shell javascript console displays these errors during installation:
JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: 'anonymous function does not always return a value'
JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: file '/home/mambroz/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/switcher.js' line 98 exception 0 number 157

Gnome shell javascript console displays this error when the issue occures as result of fast switching of windows:
Window manager warning: Log level 8: g_source_remove: assertion `tag > 0' failed
JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: TypeError: this._windows is null
JS ERROR: !!! message = '"this._windows is null"'
JS ERROR: !!! fileName = '"/home/mambroz/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/switcher.js"'
JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '171'
JS ERROR: !!! stack = '"()@/home/mambroz/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/switcher.js:171
()@/home/mambroz/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/switcher.js:159
"'

Version information:

Shell version: 3.6.2
Extension version: 15 

When I change the dim-factor option and hit Alt+Tab my screen stay locked on the looping window, and i can select text on my terminal behind the config window (see pictures

When I was trying to repeat the bug something different happen: I could access the Coverflow with Alt+Tab, the windows changed, but whatever application i tried to access gives me a blank terminal that was on my workspace, but it was locked (couldn't select or type any text)
)

First of all great extension. :) However there's a small, but quite annoying visual glitch when using it on multi-monitor setup.

When Coverflow is activated, everything works as expected - switcher appears only on primary monitor, secondary (and tertiary) are left "untouched" with original windows. However, after selecting a new window in the switcher and alt key is released, the following animation affects windows on other screens as well - they "jump" to 45 degree tilt and animate back to the entire screen - basically the same animation that is going on with other windows on the main screen that are not selected - which causes a half a second blink that can get really annoying after a few hours of window switching.

My suggestion would be completely disable animations on secondary screens, if that's possible.

Unfortunately I am unable take a video of that happening, hopefully my description is clear enough.

When you close a window with 'q', Coverflow sometimes doesn't update itself and instead shows a 'blank' preview.

When I log out of and back in to gnome 3, the extension is still enabled (set to "on") but the behavior has reset to the default Alt-Tab. I have to re-enable the extension to get it working again.

Is possible provide the pot file to translations?!

On many themes, the window title box doesn't look very nice. Perhaps changing the style class can improve it.

Thanks for this great extension, please update it to work with gnome 3.16

Gnome 3.10 has been released. I've not even the time to check if it works in those days, and this is not something really pressing, since no distribution includes it in stable branches at the time of writing. However, this issue is here just to rememeber that we should consider working on this.

@p91paul:
@dmo60:

Clem from Cinnamon is in favor of making the Coverflow extension available in Cinnamon by default (not as extension, but as a setting).

Would that be OK with you two ?
We will of course mention your work on this.

Please update this extension to Gnome 3.12 on extensions.gnome.org

When using emacs with two frames, i.e., the modern-gui equivalent of two windows, I can switch from one frame to another through an emacs shortcut(C-x 5 o). However, this does not update CoverFlowAltTab's history of which the previous window was. For example, say I have two emacs frames E1 and E2, and two other application windows, A and B. Say I am currently on E1 and got here by alt-tabbing from A. Now, pressing C-x 5 o takes me to E2. Alt-tab now takes me to A. I would like it to take me to E1. Is there a way of injecting this information into CoverflowAltTab so that it knows updates its previous window state to E1?

some fullscreen windows do not get placed correctly in wayland after alt+tab in and out.

1. Start gnome on wayland.
2. Start xonotic-sdl (just as an example)
3. On the main menu press alt+tab to tab out...
4. Press alt+tab again to tab in
   See that the window is misplaced.

if you now:

1. press windows key...
2. select a different window
3. press windows key again
4. select xonotic window
   window switching works just fine.

Please add option to not animate at all, when we alt tab quickly (for example: animate wait time: 1s)

thanks

I've to disable and re-enable the extension in gnome-tweak-tool after every reboot or shutdown. Then coverflow will work again. If I do not, I get the default look of alt+tab.

I have 3 window, I press Alt+Tab and teh Tab 2 times and when I switch from last app in list to first one, there is very strange animation.

Now last to first animation look like I swtich from workplasces (because app list is fly to left and “some new” list fly from right).

looks like something has changed in the 3.22 dev cycle.

I get this error:
second argument to Lang.bind() must be a function, not undefined

The plugin still functions but displays an error in extensions.gnome.org, lg and tweak tool.
I don't know if there's a way to get the specific line that causes this error.

Hi,
This is a great extension .i am using this in Gnome 3.6.2 on my fedora-18 laptop.
Sometime cover flow hangs and almost not able to do anything other than logging out.
It does not happen if i don't use this extension.

I have attached a screenshot which shows what it happen when it hangs.

I have Nvidia driver installed. I don't know this is anything to do with this extension.

Thanks

Thanks for considering this.