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

[Nikos Chantziaras]

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

I'm on Gentoo.  X.Org 1.4.2 (7.3).  It's exactly the same bug described 
in Novell's bugzilla.  Weird enough, I did not have the problem when 
using SuSE (6.x to 9.x years ago, had XFree86) and openSUSE (10.0 to 
10.3, after which I switched to Gentoo).  In particular, Gentoo now is 
installed on exactly the same machine where openSUSE 10.3 was installed 
previously.

Also, the bug is always there in all three different machines I boot the 
installed system in.  Two physical and one virtual (VMWare).  The bug is 
there on every machine.  And it's there in both kernel versions used in 
this installation (2.6.24 and 2.6.25).