[Bug 50938] New: Stop alt key from getting stuck on alt-tab

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50938

Bug ID: 50938
           Summary: Stop alt key from getting stuck on alt-tab
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

When you use alt-tab shortcut to switch to another window and then switch back
in, application will at no point receive alt key up signal. User needs to press
alt again to make this key unstuck. This behevior is observed in Plasma and in
lxde,   both of them use alt-tab for windows switching.

Behaviour on windows:
alt key is not stuck in down position after alt-tabing out of any application

How to test:
this can be observed in any keyboard testing program. I used switch hitter for
testing.

Is it really a bug?
Maybe not. Still very annoying in full-screen games.

[Bug 50938] Stop alt key from getting stuck on alt-tab

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Zebediah Figura  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Zebediah Figura  ---
Please provide your Wine version (`wine --version`), as well as the name of an
affected application.

[Bug 50938] Stop alt key from getting stuck on alt-tab

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[e-mail] changed:

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--- Comment #2 from [e-mail] ---
I have this issue as well. It seems to only occur when "Windowed (virtual
desktop)" is active. Every Alt+Tab requires a repress of Alt when returning to
the application within Wine. I have Wine 6.18, but am using 6.10 through
Lutris.

[Bug 50938] Stop alt key from getting stuck on alt-tab

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Patrick Klein  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Patrick Klein  ---
This bug is still present on wine version 8.
I'm on Fedora 38 Workstation with Gnome 43.
The behaviour is as stated above: Alt+Tabbing out of the virtual desktop keeps
the ALT-Key stuck. Probably because alt-tabbing is shifting the focus to
another app, never sending a keyup (release) event to the application inside
the virtual desktop.
Dis behaviour is not limited to an application or desktop enviornment but for
the virtual desktop as a whole.
To contradict, this behaviour is not limited to the Windowed mode. I tested
each mode (Windowed, Borderless and Fullscreen) replicating this bug.

[Bug 50938] Stop alt key from getting stuck on alt-tab

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Olivier F. R. Dierick  changed:

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         Resolution|---                         |DUPLICATE
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--- Comment #4 from Olivier F. R. Dierick  ---
Hello,

--- From Bug 27232#c7 (2012----
This is not a regression. The bug been in Wine as long as I remember.
Confirming - multiple users having the issue.
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I also confirm that the issue has been present as long as I've been using Wine
(Around 2014-2015).

I'll mark this bug duplicate of the oldest one I could find.

Regards.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 27232 ***

[Bug 50938] Stop alt key from getting stuck on alt-tab

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Alistair Leslie-Hughes  changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Alistair Leslie-Hughes  ---
Closing duplicate.