Re: alt key is sticky after upgrading sid today.

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Michael Flaig wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> ... if i press alt+tab to select another window and release alt and tab,
> the window list keeps being visible and the window does not get
> selected. it seems that the alt key is sticky now. 
>
> keyboard configuration
> xfree86 - 105 keys german - nodeadkeys
>
> how could that be? what could be the problem?
>
> have already downgraded Xfree to the previous version. 
> problem still not fixed :-( 
>
> gnome isn't the problem, it occures also in KDE.
>
>  
From Debian-KDE list:

> XFree86 packages that entered unstable recently. Downgrading them back 
> > to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 has fixed it for me now.
>  

 ok, I had this:

   $ xmodmap | grep mod1
   mod1        Alt_L (0x7d),  Meta_L (0x7e)

 I don't remember having Meta_L there any time, i.e. before dfsg.1-5.
 So after doing:

   $ xmodmap -e 'clear mod1 -e 'add mod1 = Alt_L'

 everything seems to do fine again.
 Note that xmodmap -e 'remove mod1 = Meta_L' didn't work for me.

 See also #254923.

Paul Scott