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    <desc>Check the activities overview or other workspaces.</desc>
    <revision pkgversion="3.6.0" version="0.2" date="2012-10-14" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
      <email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>

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<title>Find a lost window</title>
  <p>A window on a different workspace, or hidden behind another window, is easily
 found using the <link xref="shell-terminology">activities overview</link>:</p>

<list>
 <item>
  <p>Open the activities overview. If the missing window is on the current
 <link xref="shell-windows#working-with-workspaces">workspace</link>, it will be
 shown here in thumbnail. Simply click the thumbnail to redisplay the window, or</p>
 </item>
 <item>
  <p>Click on the different workspaces in the
 <link xref="shell-terminology">workspace selector</link> on the right-hand side
 of the screen to try to find your window, or</p>
 </item>
 <item>
  <p>Right-click on the application in the dash and its open windows will be
 listed. Click on the window in the list to switch to it.</p>
 </item>
</list>

<p>Using the window switcher:</p>
<list>
 <item>
  <p>Press <keyseq><key>Alt</key><key>Tab</key></keyseq> to display the window
 switcher. Continue to hold down the <key>Alt</key> key and press <key>Tab</key>
 to cycle through the open windows, or <keyseq><key>Shift</key><key>Tab</key></keyseq>
 to cycle backwards.</p>
 </item>
 <item>
  <p>If an application has multiple open windows, hold down <key>Alt</key> and press
 <key>`</key> (or the key above <key>Tab</key>) to step through them.</p>
 </item>
</list>

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