#8557 HIGH Not Tri: 8.2-760 Pressing Alt-click followed by click completely disables keyboard on system

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#8557: 8.2-760 Pressing Alt-click followed by click completely disables keyboard
on system
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 Reporter:  mzimmerm        |         Owner:  etoys        
     Type:  defect          |        Status:  new          
 Priority:  high            |     Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  etoys-activity  |       Version:  not specified
 Keywords:                  |   Next_action:  reproduce    
 Verified:  0               |     Blockedby:               
 Blocking:                  |  
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 I kept having a problem where after switching to etoys using atl-tab, it
 disabled the keyboard for all applications and left system in state as if
 Alt was pressed all the time. After head scratching, I am pretty sure I am
 able to reliably duplicate this as follows (but I know there are other
 ways - in fact I am pretty sure the first 4 steps will do):

 1. start etoys

 2. go to make project, move the mouse a bit

 3. fairly quickly after, do Alt-left click.

 4. after about 1s, another left click (without Alt) - now alt behaves as
 if "on", and further clicks behave as alt-clicks. to show the point, start
 terminal, most keys do not type anything. Nothing can be done about it!
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 The above steps seems enough most of the time. if not, do this:

 5. hit escape, which will close etoys

 6. wait reasonable amount to make sure etoys quit

 7. restart etoys alt is still "on" !

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8557>
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