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Title:SoftWindows/SoftPC
Notice:SoftWindows V2.0 SSB kit location see 1665.28
Moderator:TALLIS::SHERRY
Created:Thu Sep 21 1989
Last Modified:Tue May 13 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1837
Total number of notes:8065

1835.0. "ALT TAB not working on DEC UNIX V4 & CDE" by RTOMS::KARNBAUMW () Wed Mar 19 1997 05:20

    Hallo,
    
    due to a customer's call, we found out, that the ALT TAB key
    within Softwindows V2 does not work as expected under DEC UNIX
    V4.0 with CDE environment.
    If using the standard Style Manager entries, the Softwindow screen
    disappears behind the Unix windows, when pressing ALT TAB within
    Softwindows to change program items.
    With OSF 3.2 and Motif Window Manager this worked and you were
    able to switch between the program items of Softwindows by using
    ALT TAB.
    As a workaround you have to change Windows Behaviour within Style
    Manager to select "Point in Window to make active". Then ALT TAB
    works as expected in Softwindows but you always make windows activ
    by moving the mouse, which not everybody wants.
    Is there another workaround or will a new version of Softwindows
    integrate CDE properly ?
    
    Thanks
    
    Walter Karnbaum
    (CSC Munich)
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1835.1ALT TAB is defined by both CDE and Windows....UNXA::PARKERTue Mar 25 1997 09:1815
Walter,

I have an engineer looking into possible workarounds.  We'll let you know if we
come up with anything.

Obviously, this is a case of CDE and Windows using the same keyboard shortcut to
do the same thing.  CDE's window manager gets the sequence first and is doing
its thing instead of passing the sequence to Softwindows.

So that I can understand the priority of this, how serious a problem is this for
the customer?  

Regards,
Dave
1835.2UNXA::PARKERMon Mar 31 1997 15:0726
Walter,

For documentation on how to deal with this scenario, please look at Chapter 14
(Customizing the Workspace Manager) in the "Common Desktop Environment: 
Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide".

Key bindings are defined in the system file, /usr/dt/config/<lang>/sys.dtwmrc
(you substitute for <lang> appropriately - by default, it is "C").  You should
NOT modify this file.  Instead, to make a system-wide change, you should copy it
to /etc/dt/config/<lang>/sys.dtwmrc and modify that version.  To make changes on
a user-by-user basis, copy the file to HomeDirectory/.dt/dtwmrc

If you would like to disable CDE from understanding ALT-TAB (and perhaps
ALT-ESC, which does a similar job and conflicts with Windows ALT-ESC), you could
simply comment out the following lines:

# Alt <Key>Tab           root|icon|window        f.next_key
# Alt Shift<Key>Tab           root|icon|window        f.prev_key

Alternatively, you could select another key combination to invoke the "circulate
window" functionality in CDE.  For instance:

Alt <Key>F6		root|icon}window	f.next_key

Regards,
Dave