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?
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:16:23 +0200, Anthony R. Tuel [email protected] 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?
No idea , dont use Notes/Lotus but I would guess it is picking up the fact that the alt-key is still down when it get the focus back and taking it as a keypress.
It is not std bahaviour to take that as a keydown event but I would try to get out of it as you would if you pressed the alt in the app and then changed your mind. (Esc. Cntl_C , I dont know Notes.)
That is assuming you have a problem with it. If you are just curious about why, I think the answer is the non-std way it is handing key-states.
HTH.
On Thursday 27 October 2005 16:16, 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
Same happens for me with Zilog's ZDS-II 4.9.5. It's pretty annoying. I use the 20050725 wine snapshot.
Kuba
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.
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