alt-tab task switching form a wine app
Robert Shearman
rob at codeweavers.com
Wed Nov 2 11:43:19 CST 2005
Anthony R. Tuel wrote:
> It seems when I have an app up running under wine (lotus notes 6.5.4
> in my case) and I switch to another app (using a gaim messaging window
> in my case) using alt tab, when I come back to my notes window its as
> if I'm still holding the alt key. Not sure if this happens in other
> apps, but its really noticible in notes since it uses the alt key for
> all sorts of keyboard shortcuts. So if i'm writing a new email in
> notes, someone sends me an IM, I alt-tab switch over to gaim, when I
> switch back to notes and want to hit enter for a new line, it brings
> up the font properties windows (alt+enter being the font properties
> shortcut). This seems to happen with both 20050930 and the .9
> releases at least. Has anyone else seen this issue?
>
Yes. It is a known bug when using the Metacity WM. We have a hack in
CrossOver that works around it based on a patch somebody sent to
wine-patches within the last year.
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Rob Shearman
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