Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 107569
swallows control-* after viewport navigation
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:58:35 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: I have control-<arrows> set to change viewports. When I press control and start hitting arrow keys, it changes between viewports and pops up the little "map" of my desktop. If I move to my target viewport and keep control pressed, the "map" stays there (this is good). However, if I then press a key that metacity should not respond to, it "swallows" that key. A typical scenario is this: 1) navigate to my xemacs window with control-<arrows> 2) (still holding control) hit "x", then "s" 3) xemacs only "sees" the control-s If I instead lift the control key and re-press it before hitting "x", it works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): metacity-2.4.34-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. bind control-<arrows> to change viewports (left, right, etc) 2. move viewports to an active window 3. without releasing control, press a key that metacity should pass through. It doesn't. It will pass the NEXT one through, though. Additional info:
I don't think this is possible to fix, due to the technical details of how it's implemented. Metacity is capturing all key events while in "move between workspaces" mode (otherwise it could miss the key release and get stuck in the mode), and there's no way to pass through a key once it's been captured. I'm of course open to a patch if someone is smarter than I am. This bug may also be on gnome.org with other comments, I'm not sure.