Bug#286517: metacity: doesn't respond to right-alt key release

[Sven Arvidsson]

This is a followup for Debian bug 286517.
http://bugs.debian.org/286517

> > I just double checked the keyboard shortcuts preferences editor, and it 
> > doesn't have Right-Alt bound to anything else.  Also, I'm not running 
> > the keyboard layout switching applet.  Curiously, if I try to create a 
> > keyboard shortcut using the Right-Alt key, it sees it as a basic key, 
> > "Alt_R", not a modifier key.  If I use the Keyboard Preferences applet 
> > to enable the "Alt and Meta on the Alt keys" option, then the keyboard 
> > shortcut applet sees Right-Alt as Alt, but metacity still exhibits the 
> > bug described above.
> > 
> > Also, other gnome applications see Right-Alt as Alt.  For example, both 
> > Alt-F and Right-Alt-F open the File menu in Gnumeric.  Even emacs 
> > accepts both Alt and Right-Alt as Meta.  So I'm still inclined to put 
> > the blame on Metacity.

Hi,

It's been a long time since this bug was filed, is it still relevant?

On my system, metacity 2.18 happily accepts both Alt_R and Alt_L, as
long as Alt_R isn't set as something else, like ISO_Level3_Shift.

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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