-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Shearman [mailto:rob@codeweavers.com]
Sent: Wed 11/2/2005 12:43 PM
To: Anthony R. Tuel
Cc: wine-devel@winehq.org
Subject: Re: alt-tab task switching form a wine app

Anthony R. Tuel wrote:

> It seems when I have an app up running under wine (lotus notes 6.5.4
> in my case) and I switch to another app (using a gaim messaging window
> in my case) using alt tab, when I come back to my notes window its as
> if I'm still holding the alt key.  Not sure if this happens in other
> apps, but its really noticible in notes since it uses the alt key for
> all sorts of keyboard shortcuts.  So if i'm writing a new email in
> notes, someone sends me an IM, I alt-tab switch over to gaim, when I
> switch back to notes and want to hit enter for a new line, it brings
> up the font properties windows (alt+enter being the font properties
> shortcut).  This seems to happen with both 20050930 and the .9
> releases at least.  Has anyone else seen this issue?
>

Yes. It is a known bug when using the Metacity WM. We have a hack in
CrossOver that works around it based on a patch somebody sent to
wine-patches within the last year.

--
Rob Shearman


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Is there a bug open on this?  I would hvae thought that a patch put forth like a year ago would have made it into the official wine builds by now.