This seems to be related to the Dialog in spicy being "modal" without a parent. Can't reproduce the alt+tab failure anymore with recent gtk3 but still have the following message: "Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged."
Fixed by http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2015-June/020368.html
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