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variants of this question have been asked, namely, how to place the switcher on both monitors when using compiz and when using Unity, neither are possible from what I see.

Having it on both monitors would be great but I would also be happy to have it on a fixed monitor, so your eyes don't need to jump, or at least on the monitor that has the mouse.

(for the mouse part, I found this bug, but with little activity and older compiz. I'm using 12.04, compiz 0.9.7.12-0ubuntu3)

I want to propose yet another workaround, but for which I need help, namely, to use the "Place" compiz plugin that seems to be able to force placement on the monitor with the mouse. But to do it I need the Class of the Static Switcher window, how can I find it?

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  • Hi haelix, what is exactly the question? Perhaps you would need to divide this into more than one post. – Luís de Sousa Nov 26 '13 at 13:29
  • An answer would be valid if it solves the problem in any way (via any workaround). I think people who struggle with this would appreciate the detailed post. – haelix Nov 27 '13 at 12:46
  • But, to put it simply, **the question** can be what's written in **bold**. – haelix Nov 27 '13 at 12:47
  • What is in bold is not a question. – Luís de Sousa Nov 27 '13 at 13:57
  • What you're saying is that it doesn't have a question mark, but still, the sentence obviously implies a question, such as: **what is the Class of the Static Switcher window?** or equivalently, **how can I find the Class of the Static Switcher window**? (it it's a window at all) – haelix Nov 28 '13 at 07:40

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If you mean the "alt+tab" (I don't know how it's called), then it doesn't have a Class.

It has however a Name: Switcher.

You can find everything by using xprop:

sleep 2 && xprop -id $(xprop -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | cut -d\  -f 5)

Type this in a terminal, then press alt+tab without letting the alt key up, and you will get the results for the Switcher window.

EDIT: The following is the full output of xprop for the switcher window. Apparently it doesn't work on every situation.

_NET_WM_ICON_GEOMETRY(CARDINAL) = 7, 733, 48, 48
XKLAVIER_STATE(INTEGER) = 0, 0
WM_STATE(WM_STATE):
        window state: Normal
        icon window: 0x0
_NET_WM_DESKTOP(CARDINAL) = 0
_NET_FRAME_EXTENTS(CARDINAL) = 0, 0, 0, 0
_NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS(ATOM) = _NET_WM_ACTION_ABOVE, _NET_WM_ACTION_BELOW
XdndAware(ATOM) = BITMAP
WM_NAME(STRING) = "Switcher"
_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK
_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_STATE_STICKY, _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR, _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_PAGER, _NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED
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    Hi, nice try, but that only gets the details for the terminal window in my case (even with Alt pressed). Could be we're using different switchers, like I said, I'm using the "static application switcher" (12.04 by default doesn't alt+tab, so I go to CCSM > Window Management > enable Static Application Switcher) – haelix Dec 02 '13 at 09:20
  • I tried enabling the Static Application Switcher in CCSM but I could still get the results. By the way I have alt+tab without enabling this option. I don't remember the default behaviour of Ubuntu Precise nor how I changed it though :) – Stefanos Kalantzis Dec 02 '13 at 14:16
  • You might be using Unity, I don't. I think it was incorrect to say 'the default is no Alt+Tab'. Actually, after switching to gnome fallback, then you don't get Alt+Tab – haelix Dec 03 '13 at 14:45
  • Oh.. I see. You should mention that you don't use unity in the question then :) – Stefanos Kalantzis Dec 06 '13 at 14:15