Comment 6 for bug 6970

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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:35:25 -0500
From: <email address hidden> (Pete Harlan)
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: xserver-xfree86: [keyboard] alt key not working

I'm seeing this too, though slightly differently than the two other
ways described.

When I start X (on sid i386, with or without the alt_tab_fix.diff
applied), whether from kdm or from "startx", the Alt key works
normally in Emacs running as a separate X app, and Meta (i.e.,
"Windows" key) with tab works to switch windows in wmaker, but neither
is recognized in an xterm (or "emacs -nw" from an xterm of course).

I have found that I can work around this by holding down Alt and the
windows key together; then I get the behavior I used to get from Alt
alone. The windows key by itself doesn't do anything.

The alt_tab_fix.diff did clear up the problem I was having in that
each initial use of a modifier key was ignored. So Windows-L, which I
have mapped in wmaker to open a local xterm, would be seen as an
ordinary L the first time I tried it. The second time an thereafter
it would open a new xterm as expected. The same thing for control and
other modifier keys. This problem went away after applying
alt_tab_fix.diff.

I noticed this showing up perhaps a week ago.

Thanks for your time,

--Pete