"Applications Places Systems" menu area stealing focus

[Willie Walker]

Even Alt+Esc doesn't work for me.  I actually find that I usually need
to click twice with the mouse button to move somewhere else. :-(

Will

On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 18:13 +0200, Sven Jaborek wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 15.07.2006, 21:29 +0100 schrieb Henrik Nilsen Omma:
> > Willie Walker wrote:
> > > Hi All:
> > >
> > > When I press Ctrl+Alt+Tab to give focus to the top panel, I've found
> > > that the "Applications Places Systems" menu area at the top left of the
> > > display happily grabs keyboard focus.  
> > >
> > > The problem is that once I've done Ctrl+Alt+Tab and then get into this
> > > menu area via keyboard traversal, I often cannot seem to get keyboard
> > > focus out of this area using the keyboard alone.  I've tried Ctrl+Alt
> > > +Tab again, Escape, arrowing around, starting a new app, etc.   I find
> > > myself needing to click the mouse somewhere else to unstick the focus.
> > > I've done a cursory search of the archives, but haven't found anything
> > > related to this.  
> > >
> > > Is there a magic keystroke I'm missing?
> 
> alt+esc does the job for me.
> 
> regards, Sven
> 
> > >   
> > Hi Willie,
> > 
> > I've found a workaround, but this does seem like a bug/issue that should 
> > be reported (I'll do that). Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right changes the 
> > view to the next view-pane. You then get focus on your applications 
> > again and you can repeat to get back to your original desktop by 
> > pressing Ctrl+Alt+Right/Left.
> > 
> > - Henrik
> >