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Alt-shift-tab cycles backwards through the window stack for me. What did you want it to do that it is not?

With Unity you can press Win+1, Win+2 ... Win+N to directly jump to an specific open window. Much faster than alt+tab.

After I discovered this feature/shortcut I started not caring anymore about Unity bugs. Navigating applications this way is much faster than alt+tabbing. Another useful shortcut is alt+` (backtick). It cycles through open windows of the same application. If you have 10 PDFs open, you can cycle through them with alt+`.

What Alt-Shift-Tab did?

if we define alt tab as moving forward through windows, alt-shift-tab moves backwards

I kind of solved it with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3280187

In the end, it feels much more natural and "spacial" - rather than having a small desktop with things piled on it, I have a context-dependent desktop.