Re: Can't cycle windows anymore

[Carlos Betancourt <carlos.betancourt@chello.be>]

Thank you guys!

I downgraded to dfsg-4 and it works.
Sven's answer came just a bit too late ;), however it will be useful in
my next apt-get upgrade

Carlos

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 11:07, Sven Luther wrote:
> 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
>