When I Alt+Tab, windows of the same applications are grouped together.
For instance, if I have 2 Gnumeric windows open, they are grouped under a single “Gnumeric” entry, and I have to hover the mouse over that entry to open one of the two. I cannot switch between the two indows by pressing Tab (keeping Alt pressed).
How can I disentangle the two windows?
It has been a while since I used gnome but have you tried mapping the alt-tab to “Switch Windows” instead of “Switch Applications”?
Settings → Keyboard → Navigation
Change Switch Windows to Alt + Tab
This disabled the other behavior on my machine.
If you’d like both
Set Switch Applications back to Super + Tab
Or which ever keyboard shortcut(s) you would like to use.
For the current behavior you can also use the arrow keys to navigate to the other windows vice the mouse.
or
Hit the Super key and select the window you want to go to.
or
Hit Alt + Esc and it will directly switch windows.
Which ever ends up suiting your workflow.
To add, here’s how to go about it:
alt/super + tab: cycle all applications, then when on an application, use alt/super + ` to cycle between windows of the currently highlighted application. alt/super + esc cycles between windows that are on the current workspace.
To add, here’s how to go about it:
alt/super + tab: cycle all applications, then when on an application, use alt/super + ` to cycle between windows of the currently highlighted application. alt/super + esc cycles between windows that are on the current workspace.
I didn’t get that suggestion.
I press ALT+TAB, once I reach the application, ALT+` should cycle between the windows?
It doesn’t, but ` is mapped onto ALT GR+? on my italian keyboard
Yeh, that works here. Look at your keyboard shortcut settings—maybe it’s dependent on keyboard layout. This is what mine says (last entry):
It is not Alt+`, it is Alt+Key above Tab
Elliot, you are completely right!
Indeed on my keyboard the Key above tab is \, and Alt+\ allow me to cycle between windows of the same applications 
Thank you very much!
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