Bug 114753 - Remote applications don't appear in the "alt-tab" dialog
Summary: Remote applications don't appear in the "alt-tab" dialog
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: metacity
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-02-02 12:56 UTC by Bart van Kuik
Modified: 2007-04-18 17:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-05-25 20:57:02 UTC
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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.


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