Getting stuck while alt-tabbing

[Daniel Klein]

Alexander Nordström wrote:
> On Saturday, 19 Jun 2004 10:23, Daniel Klein wrote:
> 
>>I am using KDE 3.2.2 (distro is Debian / unstable) and I've had a very
>>strange thing happen to me two times today already: While changing
>>between tasks with alt+tab, I got stuck in the change tasks box.
> 
> 
> This is in the bugtracking system:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254973
> 
> and has been discussed in debian-kde:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2004/06/msg00137.html
> 
> and in debian-user:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg02534.html
> 
> Those are all generally good places to look before asking.
> 

Thanks for the answers, but none of these seem to describe the problem I 
have encountered.

To rephrase: I need to kill KDE, and the only way that is possible is by 
going for the 'start' menu / logout. Today the same thing happened to me 
again, unfortunately Kate decided to pop up a 'do you want to save' 
dialogbox which I could not answer in any way. I had to *HARDWARE RESET* 
my box. Do you know how icky that is, when you've gotten used to Linux? 
I'm using Linux for stability.. this is pissing me off mightily.

Question: What is metacity? (the bug you posted was dealing with 
metacity.. I don't feel like digging deep into googling and finding out 
exactly what it is. I'll assume it's a part of KDE?) Why were these 
things discussed on the DEBIAN lists and not on the KDE list? Why is 
that bug in the debian bug tracker and not in the KDE bugtracker?

Here's a full summary of the thing that happens to me again:

RANDOMLY (I cannot provoke the behaviour at all), the taskchanger box 
will not close after I release alt-tab. This seems to be unrelated to 
whether I press and release quickly or not. After that, ALL keyboard 
input is ignored (none of the other descriptions you linked me to 
mention that - even alt becoming sticky wouldn't explain why numlock 
should no longer work), and all mouse clicking is ignored except for 
clicks on tasks in the change task box (clicking moves the frame, no 
selection or closing of the box happens) and clicks on the panel. By 
clicking on the panel, I can start tasks (konsole, konqueror...) but I 
won't be able to interact with the newly launched programs. I get to 
open the start menu and do the same there. The only way out of that 
place is to click log out and pray there won't be any 'do you want to 
save' dialogs (which I won't be able to answer). All keyboard input is 
IGNORED - not even toggling numlock or capslock works, ctrl-alt+f1-f6 
are ignored, ctrl-alt+BACKSPACE is ignored, I can't even get my PC to 
beep by holding down many keys. This has happened well over 10 times to 
me now.

After searching the KDE bug database for some time and finding nothing, 
I decided to submit a bugreport myself: 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83737

Thanks again for the links you posted, but none of them seemed to cover 
my problem.

Daniel
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