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How to get alt-tab on GNOME to cycle through applications like Windows?

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I am running GNOME desktop v2.16.0 on RedHat Enterprise Linux v5.3. I would like to assign the Alt-Tab key to cycle through the currently running applications like Microsoft Windows does. I believe I've seen this work on Linux before, how can I configure my system so that this works as desired?

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This worked for me in gnome 2.30. System->keyboard shortcuts -> disable shortcuts for "move between windows using a popup" and "move between windows immediately" (select with mouse and press backspace) Open terminal and type gconf-editor navigate to…

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