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I'm using Budgie Desktop currently, and I really enjoy it. It's got good battery life, customizability, stability and speed, but there's just one thing that bothers me; it doesn't have a real app switcher. Pressing Alt + Tab will switch apps, but no dialog appears, and it doesn't allow me to select an app I want to see; it just calls them all to front, on at a time.

Because of this, I've been looking for some third party app switcher that'll show a dialog and let me select the app to switch to instead of just pulling everything to the front. Right now, I'm using skippy-xd, which is an exposé-style switcher. It's OK, but I'd prefer the linear method that Unity and GNOME use.

Googling has turned up nothing. I think I'm just not doing it correctly.

Are there any standalone app/task switchers (besides skippy-xd) available for Ubuntu or Linux in general?

Anwar
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TheWanderer
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Please note that the Alt+Tab behaviour is built into budgie-wm itself. I intend to add graphical switching in Budgie 11, which is currently in active development.

Budgie 12 will see deeper window management changes as we reduce our dependency on GNOME.

Ikey Doherty
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I strongly recommends rofi. It can be used as a window swticher and application runner. Realy neat.

Kyli
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