Re: Alt-Esc works, why can't we pass Alt-Tab to the WM?

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> There is the possibility that Alt+Tab can only be trapped on NT-based
> OSes, but that isn't much more to worry about.

Harold,

Win98, at least, has a Misc tab in shortcut properties, that lists Windows
shortcut keys to ignore (let the application handle).  Alt-Tab is one of
them.  Thus, you could instruct the users set up a shortcut to XWin.exe
and let it handle Alt-Tab, even if XWin.exe can't capture it itself.
	Igor
P.S. I'm not sure Win95/ME have this feature.

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Steven,
>
> There's not going to be much action on this until someone implements it.
>
> It wouldn't take much coding (10 lines, maybe).
>
> There is the possibility that Alt+Tab can only be trapped on NT-based
> OSes, but that isn't much more to worry about.
>
> Harold
>
> Steven Hurd wrote:
>
> > I've noticed numerous threads regarding the use of
> > Alt-Tab switching in XFree86... to summarize, people
> > say that passing Alt-Tab through to the WM would
> > result in users not being able to get back to windows
> > from full-screen mode.
> >
> > However, both Alt-Esc and Ctrl-Esc will bring you back
> > into the windows interface.  So I don't see why Alt-Tab
> > being OPTIONALLY disabled is an issue.
> >
> > Could someone please enlighten me?

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