Comment 4 for bug 6966

Message-Id: <1089188467.2409.9.camel@seb128>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:21:07 +0200
From: Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>
To: Javier Kohen <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#258003: metacity: Alt-tab switches window but doesn't give
 focus

Le mer, 07/07/2004 =E0 01:12 -0300, Javier Kohen a =E9crit :
> Package: metacity
> Version: 1:2.8.1-3
> Severity: normal
>=20
> Since a recent upgrade (to XFree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5, I think) alt-tab stopp=
ed giving focus to the selected windows, but it still presents the switch-w=
indows dialog and draws the "focus" box around the selected window. The onl=
y problem is that the focus remains on the original window.

Hi,

This bug is a xlibs bug, it has been reported several times and will be
fixed soon.

Here it is a fix from xfree's maintainer:

"A fix for this problem is available. It comes in the form of a diff
to=20
/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/pc.

To apply this fix:

1) Retrieve the patch from
   <URL: http://redwald.deadbeast.net/tmp/alt_tab_fix.diff > or the
   attachment to this mail.
2) Save the patch someplace. I recommend /tmp.
3) Become root.
4) cd /
5) patch -p0 < /tmp/alt_tab_fix.diff
6) Go back to being a mere mortal user.
7) Restart your X session. Advanced users may simply reload their
   keymap using setxkbmap(1x) with the proper arguments."

Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher