Comment 7 for bug 6970

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:54:35 -0500
From: <email address hidden> (Pete Harlan)
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: xserver-xfree86: [keyboard] alt key not working

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 06:35:24PM -0500, I wrote:
> 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 spoke too soon; that patch didn't make that problem go away. The
first use of Alt, Control, etc. per xdm login session is still
ignored.

--Pete