alt-tab task switching form a wine app

[Anthony R. Tuel]

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Shearman [mailto:rob at codeweavers.com]
Sent: Wed 11/2/2005 12:43 PM
To: Anthony R. Tuel
Cc: wine-devel at winehq.org
Subject: Re: alt-tab task switching form a wine app
 
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.

-- 
Rob Shearman


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Is there a bug open on this?  I would hvae thought that a patch put forth like a year ago would have made it into the official wine builds by now.





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