Yep, it seems easy to recover with Alt-Tab now (on Edgy). That's all we need really. Several people reported it as a problem though and I did test for it myself as well on Dapper, so unless I'm very mistaken it must have been fixed in Gnome 2.16.
Marking as Fixed :) ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Fix Released -- difficult to recover from Ctrl+Alt+Tab https://launchpad.net/bugs/53098 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs