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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: twm & Open Windows 2.0
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Date: 23 Oct 90 15:14:50 GMT
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    So I presume there is bug in twm above and beyond
    this annoying behavior of xview:  either the binding of "modifier"
    keys should work (as they do if typed in xview applications) or
    they should never work (as they don't anywhere else) in which case
    Sun should be flamed for using such a trick (especially since it
    isn't documented!).

(The addition of modifiers should surely be documented, if it isn't.)
You appear to have run into a server bug which causes the passive grab
that twm has set to fail to activate when the key is also a modifier.