Bug 84415

Summary: alt-tab window switching weirdness: menu stays, windows not activated
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Amit Shah <amitshah>
Component: generalAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: bringa
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Amit Shah 2004-07-03 15:33:57 UTC 
Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.2.91 (3.3 beta1), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-2)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.6-marvell

If <alt>+<tab> is used to switch between windows, a window-list menu pops up.

If the alt+tab combination is held for some time after a window is selected, and then released, the window is not switched, and the desktop becomes unresponsive to the keyboard. Just <alt>+<tab> keys are accepted. However, using the mouse, one can select some window from the pop-up list. Another alt+tab later, the next window in the list is given focus and the keyboard becomes responsive again.
Comment 1 Amit Shah 2004-07-03 15:34:53 UTC 
This happens in 3.2.3 also, btw. However, instead of the window list, just the window icons appear, as was the case with 3.2.x.
Comment 2 Stephan Binner 2004-07-06 13:11:20 UTC 
I read that some faulty xlibs .deb or alike causes this.
Comment 3 Amit Shah 2004-07-06 13:22:20 UTC 
On Tuesday 06 Jul 2004 16:41, Stephan Binner wrote:
> I read that some faulty xlibs .deb or alike causes this.

Can you please point me to a solution (possibly, before closing this bug)?

Thanks
Comment 5 Stephan Binner 2004-07-06 13:38:54 UTC 
*** Bug 83737 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Amit Shah 2004-07-06 14:04:03 UTC 
On Tuesday 06 Jul 2004 17:03, Stephan Binner wrote:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=1012301#post1
>012301

Thanks Stephan.

The Debian Bug database contains a fix for this bug; -6 will solve it. See 
http://redwald.deadbeast.net/tmp/alt_tab_fix.diff for the patch.

Debian bug #254973