Getting stuck while alt-tabbing

[Tim Chan]

Hi Daniel,

Whenever my menus get stuck, the ESC key usually does the trick.  

Another alternative is to disable the ALT-TAB shortcut in Control Panel
(Accessibility -> Keyboard Shortcuts) and force users to click on the
taskbar.

These are trivial hacks but you'll be able to avoid rebooting twice a
day.

-Tim

> 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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