Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 9/12/06, Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I would expect it to work with just one press of Alt. That is the way it
>> works on MS Windows and I think it is convenient. Is there any reason
>> that it should be harder on GNOME?
>
> If I am not mistaken, GNOME currently behaves exactly like Windows XP
> in this area: Windows XP also requires two presses of alt if you want
> alt to be considered to still be pressed down even after pressing a
> non-modifier key.  Now, I could be mistaken, especially since I do not
> have access to a MS Windows system to verify myself, but korn AT
> sun.com claimed this at
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102656#c11 and Bill seemed
> to verify it later in the same bug report.  ;-)

Ah, yes you are right. (It is an option.) I was misunderstanding the 
context. I thought that it was about just pressing Alt-Tab and then 
releasing the keys.
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