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When I open several instances of the same application (eg I'm viewing multiple PDF files, or MATLAB) it merges buttons for the same program in the Unity Launcher into a single one. When I click on the merged button, it shows me a preview of all windows. When I choose one of the windows it opens in full screen mode. But when I want to switch to next window and I press on the button again, the order of windows in the preview mode is completely changed so I'm confused about what is next.

How can I prevent Ubuntu from reordering windows in preview mode? The below photo shows what I mean by preview mode.

preview mode

Zanna
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Mo Sani
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If you are working with many MATLAB (or Octave, Scilab) figures - I can recommend to switch to MATE DE. It will not group their icons on taskbar and will show them in order of appearance. In other words - Unity or GNOME Shell are not so good as MATE (and maybe Xfce).

Below is example of how MATE orders Scilab figure windows which are produced with the following code:

xdel(winsid());for i=1:10, f=scf(i); f.figure_name=sprintf('f %d', i); plot3d(); end;

Scilab 5.5.2 on Ubuntu MATE 16.04.5 LTS

- it is completely logical and predictable.

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