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Alt+Tab is not switching between windows on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

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Alt+Tab is not switching between windows. While on a terminal, when I tried Alt+Tab, it only showed the effect of Tab which was:

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My Alt key is working fine as to get the panel menu. I have to do Alt + right-click.

Why isn't Alt+Tab working?

I'm using GNOME classic and not Unity.

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Well, just to finalize the answer, a reboot has done the trick for me after doing the following:

I went to system-settings -> keyboard -> shortcuts and almost all of them were disabled. I assigned "Alt+Tab" to "Switch applications". Then even though the problem specified in one of the comments above persisted, a reboot has solved the problem and I'm able to switch between windows without any problem.

Edit: Sometimes you have to reboot multiple times.