Bug#492783: x11-common: Ctrl+Alt+F7 and Ctrl+Alt+F8 signals allowed to propagate to nested applications

[Julien Viard de Galbert <julien@vdg.blogsite.org>]

Hello Siddhesh Poyarekar,

Two years ago, you filled this bug report:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:36:17AM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> Package: x11-common
> Version: 1:7.3+14
> Severity: normal
> 
> The Ctrl+Alt+F7 and Ctrl+Alt+F8 keystrokes to switch between two X
> terminals seem to be propagating to
> the constituent applications as well. For example, if you have Firefox
> running in our first terminal and
> you switch from the second terminal to the first using Ctrl+Alt+F7,
> then Firefox manages to capture that
> event as F7. Similar effects can be seen with Ctrl+Alt+F8 when you
> have OpenOffice.org running. OpenOffice responds by opening up its
> File menu.

I tried it on squeeze and could not reproduce it. I tested with xev and
I scan see some XF86_Switch_VT_7 key codes but no F7.

Can you try it again and tell me if it's fixed for you?

Thanks for your time,

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