Comment 4 for bug 6886

Message-Id: <1088410691.2593.9.camel@seb128>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:18:11 +0200
From: Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>
To: Ryan Stutsman <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#256594: metacity: alt-tab doesn't change focus on release

Le dim, 27/06/2004 =E0 19:59 +0000, Ryan Stutsman a =E9crit :

> When I alt-tab in I get the normal alt-tab dialog and the black outline
> appears as it moves from window outline to window outline; however, on
> release nothing happens... The black border and the alt-tab dialog stay
> up. If I press alt again it pops down but the focus doesn't change to
> the selected 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
/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