Ubuntu 12.04 show all windows from all workspaces expose removed

Bug #991915 reported by Andrei Petcu
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Ayatana Design
New
Undecided
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Unity
Incomplete
Undecided
Unassigned
compiz (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

In Ubuntu 11.10 there were 2 usefull shortcuts for windows management:
 - Super + W Enables the 'scale' effect, it shows all windows from all the workspaces.
 - Shift + Alt + Up Enables the 'scale' effect, it shows all windows from the current workspace.
In Ubuntu 12.04 both do the same:
 - Super + W Enables the 'scale' effect, it shows all windows from the current workspace.
 - Shift + Alt + Up Enables the 'scale' effect, it shows all windows from the current workspace.

How will my mom find her windows form other workplaces now? :)
Super + S is not the same. It shows only the upper windows. One workspace with 2 maximized windows will show only the top one.

I understand this is a feature not a bug since the Beta had the old documentation (11.10) and the new behavior (12.04) now both are the same. I think this behavior is importand and I want to bring it back. If bugs.launchpad.net is not the right place to start a conversation on a removed feature please tell me where I can propperly do this.

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Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to make Ubuntu better. As you mention, this is not a bug but rather a feature request, something which the design team needs to approve and provide instructions. Hence I am marking this bug incomplete, Best rest assured it shall be looked into.

You can also discuss this on the unity design mailing list.

affects: compiz → compiz (Ubuntu)
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in unity:
status: New → Incomplete
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Andrei Petcu (andreicristianpetcu) wrote :

Is there any workaround?

I know how to add a new shortcut key but I have no ideea what command to add. Is there a way trough which all the windows from all the workspaces can be displayed in expo?

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Danillo (danillo) wrote :

Andrei, there are lot of duplicates of this problem, which is with compiz and not unity. The developers will be working on this issue soon. See bug #933776.

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