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P: Alt-Tab once keeps me in Lightroom Classic

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 14, 2023
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Lightroom Classic 12.3 (and all previous versions of LrC while running Windows 11, as far as I can remember)
Windows 11 (can't remember if it did this in Windows 10)

Let's suppose I have only two applications open, Microsoft Word and my web browser. In windows, when I press Alt-Tab, I switch from one application to the other. If have three applications open, such as Word, Web Browser and E-mail program, Alt-Tab lets me move to the 2nd app and Alt-Tab twice lets me move to the 3rd app. All as expected.

But if one of those applications open is Lightroom Classic, then Alt-Tab once keeps me in Lightroom Classic. Not expected. I have to Alt-Tab twice to move to the next application that is open. Not expected, and annoying.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a way to fix this so Alt-Tab when I am in Lightroom Classic works as with any other application? Is this a bug?

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jordanv312650

Participating Frequently

I updated to Win 11 this week and immediately this problem occurred.

One thing that I see that I haven't spotted anyone else mention is when the alt+tab dialog/overlay pops up, for a split second it only displays the Lightroom thumbnail. (the same way it would if Lightroom was the only program open.)

This leads me to believe it's not necessarily an issue of registering the input and more an issue of when Lightroom is selected something is causing Windows/explorer to kind of "forget" there are other applications running.

Would love to hear a progress report from Adobe and some practical next steps for how we can get this addressed because it's clearly an issue whether they can replicate it or not and to simply say "It's not broken for me" and providing no path forward is extremely poor form.

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dj_paigeAuthor

Legend

@jordanv312650 do you mean Lightroom Classic or do you mean Lightroom?

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jordanv312650

Participating Frequently

Classic sorry, I forget there's another kind haha

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Bizz_Guy

Participant

Hi folks,

I've been experiencing this issue and think I've been able to isolate the problem (at least for myself).

Symptom: When pressing Alt+Tab to change to another open window, the first press of TAB does not move to the next available program, instead keeping focus on Lightroom as the first program in the list.

Situation: On the right side panel, KEYWORDING > KEYWORD SET, if open/expanded and I hold ALT, Lighroom will display the numbers 1-9 next to the available keyword spaces.

If the KEYWORD SET is collapsed, pressing ALT doesnot display the numbers in the keyword set fields, and pressing TAB once will focus to the next available program.

Solution: Close the KEYWORD SET and Alt+Tab will behave normally and as expected.

System: Windows 11, Lightroom Classic build 202506051112-5918896a

johnrellis

Legend

Unfortunately, that doesn't work in my LR 14.4 / Windows 11 :-<

Does it work for others here?

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

I can have the Keyword Set panel open, hold down [Alt], press [TAB], and then successfully use [TAB] to cycle through all running apps. So I don't see a problem with [ALT+TAB] under any circumstance.

I do see [ALT+TAB] move me to the next available program (without a second press of [TAB] )

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.0, Photoshop 27.0, ACR 18.0, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0 .

hirciklemen

Inspiring

It's been two years and still NOT being fixed Alt+Tab glitching on LRC (Adobe Lightroom Classic)!

johnrellis

Legend

@hirciklemen: "It's been two years and still NOT being fixed Alt+Tab glitching on LRC (Adobe Lightroom Classic)!"

Adobe has been unable to reproduce this problem, and until they can, it won't get filed as an internal bug report:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/minor-but-annoying-problem-using-alt-tab-in-windows/m-p/14606503#M363962

There's clearly some Windows/LR configuration issue that causes the bug to occur on some machines but not others. I provided a Windows 11 virtual machine image in which the problem occurs, which would allow Adobe to reproduce the issue without remoting into customer computers, but I don't think Adobe has examined it.

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walkographer

Participating Frequently

It's absolutely ridiculous that they are unwilling to fix such an embarassing bug in the most basic UI functionality. To add insult to injury, they even shift the responsibility to their users, instead of bending over backwards in order to pin down and fix this disgrace, as any development team worth their salt would do – not to speak of a global top vendor in their field only offering expensive subscriptions with the promise of regular updates and bugfixes. Laughable. Nothing but greed and incompetence from their side.

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michaelh86291959

Participant

I finally upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 and immediately had this problem. Very annoying and disruptive to my engrained workflow.

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michaelh86291959

Participant

And to elaborate, if I Alt-tab with Lightroom Classic open and in "Develop" mode, I see the problem, no matter where LR Classic is in my "stack" of windows.

If Lightroom Classic is in Library view, I only see the problem if I am Alt-tab'ing away from LR Classic as the main window.

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RafalN

Participating Frequently

Adobe Moderator or Admin, is it possible to move an entire thread back from the Discussion section to the Bugs? This issue has persisted for a long time without a fix, and it is a bug. The unusual Alt-Tab behavior occurs exclusively when Lightroom Classic is open and actively processing images (e.g., during export, preview building, etc.).

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dj_paigeAuthor

Legend

The unusual Alt-Tab behavior occurs exclusively when Lightroom Classic is open and actively processing images (e.g., during export, preview building, etc.).

By @RafalN

This is not my experience. The Alt-Tab problem affects me if LrC is just sitting there doing nothing for an hour. It affects me whenever LrC is the application I am trying to leave with Alt-Tab, not just when it is actively processing image.

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RafalN

Participating Frequently

You are absolutely right; I wasn’t precise enough.

The issue with Alt-Tab consistently happens when LR is open. If nothing is being processed, I can switch between applications by pressing Alt-Tab multiple times. However, when LR is processing photos, I can’t switch applications using Alt-Tab at all. The only way to do it is with the mouse cursor.

Sorry for confusion.

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TwistedPixelsPhotoStudio

Participant

Happening to me as well, if Lr is exporting files, Alt+Tab is nearly unusable.

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defaulthhdfbuc8va13

Participant

I have the same issue. I thought it was a fault with my old laptop but have just upgraded and the same issue has followed me. It's very annoying. Surprising that this has been happening for so long and still no fix.

Currently running LrC 2024-v13-3 on Windows 11 Pro 10.0.22631 on new Asus ProArt Studiobook.

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NotDrJekyll

Participant

Just installed lightroom classic for the first time and instantly have this problem. Even if I hold alt I can tab through various windows but if I select one by releasing tab it just opens LrC again. This is so incredibly frustrating, alt+tab is something I do constantly, this is basically an unusable program if this persists.

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walkographer

Participating Frequently

Yes, it's extremely annoying and absolutely embarassing for a company like Adobe.

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walkographer

Participating Frequently

+r

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keylightdigital

Participating Frequently

Happens in Windows 11, not in Windows 10. Holding down Alt and continuing to press Tab does NOT really solve the problem. When you do that, you have to hit Tab TWICE before it will switch to the next application.

hirciklemen

Inspiring

One year and two months and still NOT fixed regarding Annoying bug Lightroom Classic Alt-Tab flickering in Windows 11.🤬 Also no any new replies since June 7th.😑

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RafalN

Participating Frequently

I can see some progress 😥

Now I have same issue on both, stand-alone PC (Alienware, Ryzen Edition, running Win11Pro) and laptop (MIS Stealth 16 Studio, i9-13900 rumming Win11Pro). Prevously it was laptop only. 🙎
When I run extensive Export (e.g. 500 pictures) it's impossible to change application using Alt-Tab.

hirciklemen

Inspiring

My laptop (Acer Nitro 5) have the following specs:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10300H CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.50 GHz
16,0 GB RAM (one more free RAM slot, up to 32 GB)
64-bit OS, processor x64
Nivida GeForce GTX 1650, 4 GB V-RAM
Windows 11 Home edition
512 GB SSD (with one more free disk slot / maybe two more free disk slots🤷‍♂)

This also happens to me, when I Export (e.g. 450 pictures / 350 images / maybe more maybe less exporting photos), the same result = it's impossible to change application using Alt-Tab too (from Lightroom Classic to other app).

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