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Bug 346599 - No way to focus a child dialogue with keyboard
No way to focus a child dialogue with keyboard
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 94682
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-07-05 02:59 UTC by Maciej Katafiasz
Modified: 2006-07-05 13:59 UTC
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Description Maciej Katafiasz 2006-07-05 02:59:06 UTC 
There's no way to Alt-Tab to a child dialogue if the parent window has focus. An example of this can easily be seen in XChat (plain one, not xchat-gnome):

1) open the file transfers window
2) give focus to the main window
3) try to focus the transfers window again using keyboard only

This is quite probably a more general case of window navigation within a group being somewhat flaky and underdefined, there doesn't seem to be a well-defined way to switch through child windows.
Comment 1 Thomas Thurman 2006-07-05 10:13:20 UTC 
Does bug 94682 solve this problem?
Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2006-07-05 13:59:38 UTC 
Yes, this is the same bug.  We had keyboard navigation screwed up for a long time.  Due to a separate issue (bug 106249) this wasn't a major problem.  Once that got fixed without Thomas' fix to bug 94682, things were basically broken.  We still have a few things to clean up still (see bug 338660), but things finally work again now with recent versions.

I'll go ahead and mark as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94682 ***