Alt-Esc works, why can't we pass Alt-Tab to the WM?
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Jul 2 18:29:00 GMT 2003
Steven,
There's not going to be much action on this until someone implements it.
It wouldn't take much coding (10 lines, maybe).
There is the possibility that Alt+Tab can only be trapped on NT-based
OSes, but that isn't much more to worry about.
Harold
Steven Hurd wrote:
> I've noticed numerous threads regarding the use of
> Alt-Tab switching in XFree86... to summarize, people
> say that passing Alt-Tab through to the WM would
> result in users not being able to get back to windows
> from full-screen mode.
>
> However, both Alt-Esc and Ctrl-Esc will bring you back
> into the windows interface. So I don't see why Alt-Tab
> being OPTIONALLY disabled is an issue.
>
> Could someone please enlighten me?
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