Whatever happened to Alt+F6 (to switch between modeless dialogs)?

In all versions of Windows until Vista (I think that was when it went
missing) you used to be able to press the standard defined accelerator
Alt+F6 to switch between an application's main window and any modeless
dialogs it had.
It's still documented as such here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb246447(v=vs.85).aspx
"ALT+F6
Switch to next window within application (between modeless secondary
windows and their primary window).
For example, in Notepad, when you have its Find dialog open, under
XP/Windows 2003 (and all earlier Windows versions) you can press
Alt+F6 to switch between the main window and the Find dialog.
This keystroke was particularly useful when an application's modeless
dialog was positioned off the screen and couldn't be clicked on it
with the mouse. You could press Alt+F6 to activate the modeless
dialog, then Alt+Space to popup the modeless dialog's menu, then
invoke the move operation - and get the modeless dialog back on
screen.
On all versions of Windows subsequent to XP/W2K3, as far as I know
there's no way of activating a modeless dialog with the keyboard.
Does anyone know if there's a substitute keystroke, and if not, out of
interest why we lost that keystroke?
Dave

Are you using KMS?
I'm not sure but you could try launching your WM from .xinitrc:
'exec ck-launch-session WM'
Instead of WM you can try 'startxfce4' 'xfce' or wait for somebody smarter than me :-)

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