Bug#648418: metacity: Alt+Tab windows switching loses X selection

[Olivier Berger]

Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.34.1-2
Severity: normal

After recent upgrades to gnome 3 fallback session, metacity's windows switching mechanism using Alt+Tab has started reseting the X selection.

This prevents from selecting text in one window, then switch to another to paste (with middle mouse button).

It's quite annoying when you're used to middle mouse button pasting of selection.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages metacity depends on:
ii  gnome-icon-theme          3.2.1.2-1 
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.2.0-2   
ii  libc6                     2.13-21   
ii  libcairo2                 1.10.2-6.1
ii  libcanberra-gtk0          0.28-3    
ii  libcanberra0              0.28-3    
ii  libgconf2-4               2.32.4-1  
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.24.0-1  
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.28.8-1  
ii  libgnome2-common          2.32.1-2  
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.7-1  
ii  libgtop2-7                2.28.4-1  
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.7-2 
ii  libmetacity-private0a     1:2.34.1-2
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.29.4-2  
ii  libsm6                    2:1.2.0-2 
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-1    
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.4.4-2 
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.3-2 
ii  libxcursor1               1:1.1.12-1
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.3-2 
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.0-3 
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0-4   
ii  libxinerama1              2:1.1.1-3 
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.3.2-2 
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.6-2 
ii  metacity-common           1:2.34.1-2
ii  zenity                    3.2.0-1   

Versions of packages metacity recommends:
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.0.2-3
ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.0.2-3

Versions of packages metacity suggests:
ii  gnome-control-center  1:3.0.2-3
ii  gnome-themes          2.30.2-1 
ii  xdg-user-dirs         0.14-1   

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