Bug 81769

Summary:	Individual keypresses of combinations (e.g. alt-tab) are also read
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	Adam Williamson <adamw>
Component:	XWayland	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	1.5.0
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	All
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Description Adam Williamson 2014-07-26 02:49:34 UTC

Running Fedora 21 with Wayland 1.5.0 and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-1.15.99.904-4.fc21.x86_64 . If I activate a Firefox window and then alt-tab out of it, it seems like the alt keypress itself is also interpreted - Firefox shows or hides its menu bar, like it would if I just pressed <alt> (in any Firefox release with the hidden menu bar). Something also seems to be sent to the window I switched to - if it's a GNOME terminal, I sometimes see an error "bash: words: bad array subscript"

to reproduce, just log into a Shell-on-Wayland session in a current Fedora 21 and try alt-tabbing between a Firefox window and a GNOME terminal window, at least that dependably reproduces the bug for me.

Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2014-07-26 02:49:57 UTC

oh, filed against Xwayland because I don't see this when switching between two native Wayland windows.

Comment 2 Daniel Stone 2014-10-03 18:02:01 UTC

Mutter actually implements its entire own compositor setup - can you please file this as a bug there? Ta.

Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2014-10-03 18:17:05 UTC

aha, thanks for the tip. Yup, I can.

Comment 4 Adam Williamson 2014-10-03 18:19:45 UTC

For anyone else who winds up here, GNOME bug appears to be https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727178 .

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