Re: [Usability] sticky keys and alt-tab

["Maurizio Colucci" <maurizio colucci gmail com>]

On 9/13/06, Maurizio Colucci <maurizio colucci gmail com> wrote:

On 9/12/06, Elijah Newren < newren gmail com> wrote:

On 9/12/06, Maurizio Colucci <maurizio colucci gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> if I enable sticky keys (control panel -> keyboard -> accessibility), I
> loose the ability to ALT-TAB (unless, of course, I keep ALT pressed, which
> defeats the purpose of using sticky keys). Is there any way to switch the
> active window with the keyboard  which does not require holding buttons?
> Thanks for any help.

If you have sticky keys enabled, you should be able to "make alt be
pressed and held" (not sure if this has a technical term) by hitting
alt twice.  Then hit tab however many times you need.  Then "release
alt" by hitting alt again.  In other words, to get the behavior
equivalent to
   <press-alt>-<tab>-<tab>-<tab>-<release-alt>
but with sticky keys, you would instead use the key sequence
   <alt>-<alt>-<tab>-<tab>-<tab>-<alt>

 

Hope that helps,

It would, if it worked. Unfortunately it does not work at all. Pressing ALT twice is no different than pressin it once for me. I am using the USA keyboard layout, Gnome is the one in Ubuntu Dapper. Any ideas? Thank you. :-)

Never mind, I found the problem: in keyboard preferences -> layout options -> group/shift-lock behavior, I had to disable "both alt keys together change group". However this does not make much sense, since I was not pressing both alt keys together. Is this a bug?

cheers

Maurizio

Maurizio