Bug 102668
Summary: | keyboard desktop or app switching broken | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta | Reporter: | Alexandre Oliva <aoliva> |
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | beta1 | CC: | chris.ricker, hp, jtlegbandt, leonard-rh-bugzilla, michael, msw, otaylor, trondeg, vegarni |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | 4.3.0-25 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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Last Closed: | 2003-09-03 02:48:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Bug Blocks: | 100643 |
Description
Alexandre Oliva
2003-08-19 18:06:41 UTC
It actually gets much worse. If focus is configured to follow the mouse, Alt-Tab won't work at all. After Alt-Tab, focus is on the application switcher mini-window. Pressing Alt again for it to go away, focus follows mouse, regardless of which app you chose to switch to. Ok, some of the bugfixes are going to have to be backed out. We'll have to pinpoint the one that is causing the problem, but I think I know which one it might be. Just upgraded XFree86 to 4.3.0-21, same problem as with -20. If I go to "Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts" and try to assign the usual ALT-TAB shortcut to the "Move between windows with popup" action, only "Alt_L" is registered when I press ALT-TAB. It seems like ALT has lost it's modifier status, and is instead a normal key. I have these options in /etc/X11/XF86Config: Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "no" This used to work before I upgraded to XFree86-4.3.0-20 This is believed to be fixed now in 4.3.0-22. Please upgrade, and test, and reopen the report if the problem persists. Closing as RAWHIDE installed the 4.3.0-22 rpms from ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/XFree86/4.3.0-22/ and the alt-tab problem is gone. Ok, thanks for the update Joshua. Closing bug as fixed in XFree86 4.3.0-22 in rawhide. The left Alt key indeed works, but the right Alt key still mis-behaves. I don't think this difference is intentional, is it? Also have a look at bug #103051. perhaps xmodmap output is enlightening? 'xkbcomp :0 output.xkb' output is probably more useful than xmodmap, which is a pale shadow of the keyboard configuration kept around for compatability purposes. Fixed in 4.3.0-25, the Jumbo Tiger Shrimp(TM) edition |