[wellylug] ALT-Tab + XORG

David Antliff dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Fri Jun 25 14:39:12 NZST 2004


On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Gordon Paynter wrote:

> This is not due the the window manager, strange as it may seem.  There's a
> lower-level issue.
>
> Debian sid users should experience it soon, as XFree86 4.3 filters through
> (unless someone patches it somehow, which seems like an obvious thing to
> do).
>
> I can't remeber where I found it, and I don't really know what it does,
> but here's a fix I found that woked for me in XFree86 4.3/KDE 3.2.  YMMV.
>
>   xmodmap -e 'clear mod1' -e 'add mod1 = Alt_L'

I am unable to test this (no X on my Debian box) but it appears I stand
corrected. It would be interesting to find out what keycode mod1 is set to
by default in this situation.

Nicely spotted,

David.




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