ALT+F7 (Linux console to X switch) results in X picking up the key press

[Felix Miata]

On 2008/07/17 01:02 (GMT+0300) Nikos Chantziaras apparently typed:

> When switching from a Linux console back to X with Alt+F7, X detects the 
> Alt key as being pressed (in KDE for example, this switches focus to the 
> active application's menu and in xterm it results in garbage 
> characters).  Shouldn't this key combination be ignored by X?

> The relevant section of my xorg.conf:

> Section "InputDevice"
>      Identifier "Keyboard1"
>      Driver     "kbd"
>      Option     "AutoRepeat" "250 30"
>      Option     "XkbRules" "xorg"
>      Option     "XkbModel" "pc104"
>      Option     "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection

> The keyboard is connected to the PS/2 keyboard port and has 104 keys (I 
> counted :P)

Are you using SUSE? If so, it's a very old bug:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=141443
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