Alt Tab switch between windows group on Ubuntu 15.04

Alt Tab switch between windows group on Ubuntu 15.04

The classic Alt Tab on old Ubuntu distribution(versions before Ubuntu 12.10) will switch between all open windows in the current workspace. However, on my Ubuntu 15.04, the Alt Tab switchs between windows of different application(windows of same application will be grouped), if you have multiple windows of the same application(e.g: terminal windows), Alt Tab won't do switch for you. This causes a lot of inconvenience especially when you heavily work with multiple terminal windows, Ubuntu 15.04 provides Alt + ` for us to switch windows of the same application.(Note: ` is caret, above Tab key).

If we want to revert back to the classic Alt Tab behavior, we can follow the below method:
1 – Install Compiz Config Settings Manager and the compiz-plugins-extra (which includes the old application switcher).

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

2 –press Alt F2 and type unity in Filter input box, Start Compiz Config Settings Manager and disable the Ubuntu Unity Switcher like the below:

Find the Ubuntu Unity Switcher

Select the switcher tab and this disable everything. If you don’t disable all the features then you can have a key binding conflict.

3 – Enable the old Compiz Switcher like so:
Close the Unity Plugins, search for the application switcher in Filter

Search for the application switcher.

Uncheck the “icon” select box because otherwise you end up with a rather ugly icons which are massive.

Finally Enable the Applcation Switcher.

You should now have a happy switcher. Hurray! Let me know if you have any improvements to this recipe.