Bug 114753

Summary:	Remote applications don't appear in the "alt-tab" dialog
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Bart van Kuik <bart.van.kuik>
Component:	metacity	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Bart van Kuik 2004-02-02 12:56:16 UTC

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Description of problem:
0) Start into X
1) telnet to a remote host
2) export display to host you're working on
3) type "xhost +" locally
4) start something, i.e. xclock remotely
5) the window of the application appears locally
6) press and hold alt-tab locally; the remote application does not appear

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
metacity-2.4.34-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See description

Actual Results:  The remote application didn't appear in the "alt-tab"
dialog

Expected Results:  The remote application should appear in the
"alt-tab" dialog

Additional info:

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2004-05-25 20:57:02 UTC

I think the issue here is that xclock doesn't appear in alt+tab,
because xclock is a client that doesn't accept keyboard focus. Thus
alt+tab to it would not make sense.

Reopen if you can reproduce with something other than xclock.