Joel's questions

If you have ever used Cmd + Tab on OS X you know what I'm looking for. This is actually one of the few features of OS X I love.

I'm using Compiz and in the Static Application Switcher I have set it so I can switch between applications in the same group using Alt + ~. I've looked through all the different plugins and have searched around on the internet but haven't been able to find anything that lets me switch between the groups. Something that lets me hit Alt + Tab and it'll pop up only one option for all the open apps. Is there any way to do this?

Edit:

I use Gnome3/Shell at work and have noticed that Gnome3 implements this feature. Would be nice if we could get it in Unity, too. :)

Using Maverick 64bit

I downloaded Popper Email Notifier today. Installed it from the v023 deb.
https://launchpad.net/popper

I configured it, and the TEST tab shows I configured everything properly. I can't get Popper to appear in the notification menu. I have restarted gnome-pannel, restarted my computer, reinstalled the app. No luck. I checked the /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/ folder, and there's only the defaults there.

Anyone know how to fix this? Even if someone knows what file I can drop into that folder to make it work that'd be great.

Edit: I wonder if it's because I removed the evolution-indicator package?

Thanks!

I'm using Maverick with Compiz enabled.

I've searched AskUbuntu and Google. AskUbuntu doesn't have anything on this topic and everything Google turns up is a couple years old.

I'm doing browser tests and my tests are constantly spawning new Firefox windows. The problem is, when the window is spawned it takes focus. This is incredibly annoying as I'm usually in the middle of typing somewhere else. This doesn't only happen with my tests, but is the most common example I run into. Sometimes my IDE decides it wants focus when something special happens (like when something is done compiling) and then later I'll find fragments of IM messages I've typed in my code. This is driving me crazy. I've looked in both Gnome settings and Compiz settings and can't find a way to prevent that from happening.

Does anyone know of a way to prevent an app from stealing focus when it is opened? I'd rather have the taskbar flash at me or something to get my attention.

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10, but I find that this project is having issues with the version of mysql server that 10.10 installs. I have another machine running the same build of this project but it's running 10.04 and it doesn't have any problems. I found that the version are a little different (10.04 has 5.1.41 and 10.10 has 5.1.49). I would like to be able to install the lucid version on my maverick machine, but Google isn't turning up anything useful to accomplish this task.

Anyone know how I would go about doing that?

Thanks.

I've been using Eclipse for quite a while. I just switched from OpenJDK to SunJDK. I went back to using Eclipse, it opened just fine. I added some libraries to my build path of a project, but the error checker was still saying I didn't have it. So I decided to restart Eclipse. After than I can't start eclipse. It doesn't give any errors or anything. If I launch it from the command line, it doesn't do anything:

joel@joel-laptop:~$ eclipse
joel@joel-laptop:~$ 

It never pops up the choose workbench dialog or anything. Has anyone heard of this? I'm using the latest version from the Ubuntu repos.

I've tried restarting my machine and reinstalling Eclipse. Nothing.