Bug 114753 – Remote applications don't appear in the "alt-tab" dialog

Bug 114753 - Remote applications don't appear in the "alt-tab" dialog

Summary:	Remote applications don't appear in the "alt-tab" dialog

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	metacity (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Havoc Pennington
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2004-02-02 07:56 EST by Bart van Kuik
Modified:	2007-04-18 13:02 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-05-25 16:57:02 EDT
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Description Bart van Kuik 2004-02-02 07:56:16 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a)
Gecko/20031015 Firebird/0.7+

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

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Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2004-05-25 16:57:02 EDT

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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