Ubuntu
firefox package

Firefox eats my window manager shortcuts

Bug #12376 reported by Matt Zimmerman on 2005-01-29

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Invalid	High	Thom May

Bug Description

Since the last time I restarted firefox (after upgrading to
1.0+dfsg.1-2ubuntu5), whenever firefox has focus, my keyboard shortcuts no
longer work. Alt+Tab does nothing. Alt+1, Alt+2, etc. (which I have bound to
switch to particular desktops) switch tabs instead. Ctrl+Alt+<left> and
+<right>, which by default should switch desktops, do nothing.

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Thom May (thombot) wrote on 2005-01-29:

Hrm, this really does sound like a metacity problem. FWIW, I can't reproduce any
problems with alt+tab or ctrl+alt+left/right with firefox focused. CCing Seb

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Thom May (thombot) wrote on 2005-01-29:

< mdz> ok, the problem is redefined as "window manager shortcuts no longer work
on desktop #5"
<@thom> whacky
< mdz> but continue to work everywhere else
<@thom> that's, um, impressive
< mdz> ok, closing all windows on that desktop and diddling about a bit seems to
have gotten it back
< mdz> even after reopening firefox
< mdz> so RESOLVED/WTF