Comment 2 for bug 6887

Message-Id: <1088410586.2593.5.camel@seb128>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:16:26 +0200
From: Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>
To: Ricardo Mones <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#256596: metacity: <Alt>Tab does not switch windows, other
 keybindings does

Le lun, 28/06/2004 =E0 03:08 +0200, Ricardo Mones a =E9crit :
> Package: metacity
> Version: 1:2.8.1-3
> Severity: normal
>=20
> When using <Alt>Tab as keybinding for switch_windows feature the
> behaviour is the following:
> 1) next window in the window list is drawed a surrounding black frame
> 2) the panel with the windows icons appears in the middle of the screen
> with the icon of that window selected

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