Bug 9208

Summary:	alt+tab combination does not work in full-screen application (eg - xmoto)
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	benderamp <benderamp>
Component:	* Other	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	peter.hutterer, raulosuna
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description benderamp 2006-11-30 06:46:53 UTC

If I start any application from my kde desktop (xmoto for example) in a full-
screen mode, I can't press alt+tab combination and return to my desktop or to 
any other already started application window. I have to exit the full-screen 
game, make all the things I want on the desktop and then to restart the game. 
All this seem to be very annoying. 

As far as I know (I might be wrong), the full-screen app captures keyboard 
input and does not send the alt+tab to the window manager. But I do think each 
particular full-screen app should process alt+tab and recend it to wm - there 
should be some global solution suitable for all kind of applications (possibly 
it should be rather flexible and would not be bounded only by alt+tab 
combination) - without this my desktop with all its beauties and compiz 
features does not seem to be enough usable.

Thank you

Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:34:56 UTC

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

Comment 2 Raúl Osuna 2007-11-08 03:11:07 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)

My alt+tab combination doesn't work at all now at any time since I last updated. If I switch back to last version (I don't remember the number, but the one in Debian etch) of xorg, it works properly again.

Whatismore, now control+f4 doesn't close a tab in firefox, it changes to the 4th desktop. Problem get solved again with a previous version of X.org.

Useful information:
xorg 7.3+3, xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1.2.2-3. Debian sid, kernel 2.6.23.1, arch i386.

Should I create a new bug id for this?
Any other info needed?

Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2009-09-06 23:25:16 UTC

AFAICT, original bug comment is a dupe of 4286.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 4286 ***

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