[Sugar-devel] Alt + Tab issue on sugar-emulator

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 21:31, Sascha Silbe
<sascha-ml-reply-to-2010-2 at silbe.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Dipankar Patro's message of Sun Sep 05 20:34:55 +0200 2010:
>
>> I was unable to reproduce the bug because the 'Alt + Tab' function doesn't
>> work in Sugar on Ubuntu (Neither in emulator nor in Sugar-Session).
>
> That's probably due to the same bug I've hit on Debian and Bernie before
> me on Fedora 11.

Also note that Xephyr has been almost fully rewritten lately and is
now kind-of-maintained again. So may make sense to just update to a
recent version.

Regards,

Tomeu

> He wrote a patch [1] for metacity that fixes it.
> ISTR Bernie saying something about some other component (X server?)
> being broken and this being just a workaround. Since I don't know any
> details and don't quite understand the change, I haven't filed a bug
> report at Debian yet. I probably should have reported it and let the
> maintainer sort out who actually is to blame. They could at least
> ship the patch for the time being. So feel free to open a ticket on
> Debian.
>
>> The problem with sugar-emulator:
>> Somehow the native X sessions' priority is higher then Xephyr's. So even if
>> the function for 'Alt+Tab' is coded into Sugar. The emulator (on Xephyr)
>> still won't be able to catch that.
>
> If Xephyr has a global keyboard grab, it will get any keyboard event,
> including Alt-Tab (and anything else your window manager might catch
> otherwise). You can toggle the global keyboard and mouse grab by
> pressing Ctrl+Shift, like it tells you in the Xephyr title bar.
> VNC acquires a global keyboard grab iff running in full screen mode.
>
>> Aleksey suggested we have to disable the 'Alt+Tab' combination in
>> Sugar-Emulator.
>
> What do you mean?
>
> Sascha
>
> [1] http://sascha.silbe.org/patches/metacity-ungrab-keybindings.patch
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