On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:37:01PM +0200, Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot wrote: > Does any one use gnome-2.6 + metacity (2.8.1-3) and has observed a > strange behaviour in the Alt key when typing, i.e., Alt+Tab to change > focus between windows? > > After upgrading to the latest xfree (4.3.0.dfsg.1-5) in SID the Alt key > seems to get 'pressed' some how and after releasing it I have to press > it again to 'unpress' it (as a side effect, the focus in windows doesn't > change).
Known problem. i run this little script (by hand) after the login : #!/bin/sh xmodmap -e 'clear mod1' -e 'add mod1 = Alt_L' I hear it is already fixed or something such in the xfree86 development tree, and we just have to wait for the next version of the xlibs package. Friendly, Sven Luther