Re: Can't cycle windows anymore

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 11:34:07AM +0200, Sven Salzwedel wrote:
> Am Sa, den 26.06.2004 schrieb Carlos Betancourt um 11:22:
> > Hello everyone!
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Since a couple of days ago, after my last upgrade (Sid), I can't cycle
> > among windows anymore. I'm using Gnome with metacity. Whenever I
> > <Alt>Tab I can see the open windows' icons, but when selecting another
> > window it doesn't raise.
> 
> this is caused by the dfsg-5 version of xlibs. Just downgrade the xlibs
> (only this one) to dfsg-4 and you'll be happy. This version is still on
> the debian servers, I think. At least it was some days ago.

There is another solution which consist in unmapping and remapping the
mod1 to Alt_L. Look at bug report #254923 for details. 

I wonder though why this is mostly ignored and nobody make effort to
really fix this ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther