Comment 49 for bug 6890

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:43:26 -0500
From: Branden Robinson <email address hidden>
To: "Nathaniel W. Turner" <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#256706: patch for Win-Tab bug

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retitle 256706 xlibs: Win+Tab switching broken in many window managers
# this bug is not fixed ustream, applicable to experimental, nor does it
# have a usable patch
tag 256706 =3D upstream help
thanks

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:37:04PM -0400, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote:
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> On Thursday 08 July 2004 07:26 pm, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > It's not nonsense, but I don't think it correct either. I strongly sus=
pect
> > that this will screw things up for people who use <LWIN> for something
> > other than Super_L.
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> Yeah, I believe you're right. In KDE just pressing and releasing LWIN us=
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> open the K-Menu. This no longer works on this box with my patch (but it =
does=20
> work on a similar system where xlibs has been held at an older version).

I'm not sure I made myself clear; I'm saying the proposed fix isn't right
either, not because it doesn't fix KDE (which I would have expected,
actually), but because it would force a certain modifier to be bound to
<LWIN> even for people who wanted a different modifier bound to that key.

I have mailed Ivan Pascal, a well-known XKB guru, and pleaded with him for
assistance. So far he hasn't replied yet, but I'm hopeful.

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G. Branden Robinson |
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