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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