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When I use ALT+TAB to cycle through my apps I would like to have icons for all my open browsers. I use the ` (Grave) but I really find that hard to use.

Anyway I can just use ALT+TAB only?

Here is my solution:

1. Install compizconfig-settings-manager and open it (type ccsm in terminal).




2. Go to Desktop > Ubuntu Unity Plugin.




3. Open Switcher tab and make key to start the switcher and key to start the switcher in reverse disabled.




4. Go back to CompizConfig Settings Manager.




5. Go to Window Management and enable Application Switcher.




6. Open Application Switcher and change key bindings of "Next Window (All windows)" to Alt-Tab and "Prev window (All windows)" to Shift-Alt-Tab.

Then you will start to use a different switcher instead of Unity's switcher.

The other option -which I'm testing out this week- is to have the ALT+TAB switch between apps, and ALT+| switch between windows of the same app. It sounds complicated but it works surprisingly well.

Use case A: You're on Firefox and want to switch to Thunderbird: ALT+TAB.

Use case B: You're on a Calc window and want to switch to another Calc window: ALT+|.

In B, you could use the old way of ALT+TAB, where it cycles through all your windows, but it can take a while to do that if you have more than a few windows open. With this thing, you always know where you want to go, and choose the quicker way to get there.

I choose | because it's just above TAB, so my brain and my finger don't need to move very far.

To enable this: System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Navigation > Switch windows of an application (it's just underneath Switch applications, which is how I found it).

Easy to test, safe, easy to revert, no need to install anything.

Otuzbesli's answer works but for Ubunut 14.04 you need to install compiz-plugins in addition to compizconfig-settings-manager

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-plugins

Before installing anything, try these key combinations:

• 
  alt + | (the key above Tab, may be `, º, |...) to switch between instances of the current application


• 
  alt + ESC to direct switch to the next window


• 
  alt + Tab, of course, to switch between different applications

You can see the three keys are neighbors.

I tried this and as soon as I launched ccsm:

• my desktop was gone. No start menu, taskbar, launcher.. Just the wallpaper.


• 
  Alt+Tab doesn't work at all.

I was able to launch a Terminal using right click on desktop. Many people faced this under different situations. Solution always said reset compiz config, delete x11 config, delete gnome config and launch unity with setsid unit && unit.

For me it said:

(0)kash@Laptop$ setsid unity

setsid: failed to execute unity: No such file or directory

(0)kash@Laptop$

They also said launch ccsm again and enable Unity plugin there. Well, it just wasn't there in the list of enabled or disabled plugins.

Many heart attacks later

sudo apt-get install unity

unity

I hate the dev who made ccsm.

After you install Unity, when you launch ccsm, it has Unity plugin in it.

I had Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS running inside a VirtualBox with Windows 10 Host.