Comment 4 for bug 6902

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:50:04 +1000
From: Hoges <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: metacity: Patch suggested to xlibs works..

Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.8.1-3
Followup-For: Bug #256939

For convienience of others who visit here before xlibs fixed..

Following based upon:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254973

1. cd /tmp
2. wget http://redwald.deadbeast.net/tmp/alt_tab_fix.diff
3. *Verify .diff file contains nothing dodgy*
3. su -
4. cd /
5. patch -p0 < /tmp/alt_tab_fix.diff
6. *Restart XFree86*
7. *Your alt tab should now work!*

Note: You should always check contents of diff file before patching
      folks.... not that I don't trust the original poster of this
      link, but it's prudent to check..

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages metacity depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.6.1-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.3-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libmetacity0 1:2.8.1-3 Common library of lightweight GTK2
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.0-4 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System Session Management
ii libstartup-notification0 0.6-2 library for program launch feedbac
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii sgml-base 1.25 SGML infrastructure and SGML catal
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client libraries m

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