Re: Keyboard problems

["Francis VIVAT" <francis dot vivat at cetp dot ipsl dot fr>]

Hi,

good news, Harold !

Thanks for the froggies and al. ;-)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
To: "'Pierre Muller'" <muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr>; <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: mercredi 18 avril 2001 18:24
Subject: RE: Keyboard problems


> Pierre,
> 
> I've downloaded the source code for vnc on Windows.  VNC has a pretty clear
> method of dealing with the AltGr key, so I'll be reworking the AltGr
> handling within the next couple of days.
> 
> Oh, I should state the AltGr, until now, has not been handled at all;
> therefore, the operational status of AltGr on various computers will be
> completely random.
> 
> Harold
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> > Pierre Muller
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:41 AM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Keyboard problems
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >    The X server seems to make strange things under win95 at least:
> >
> > Several keys when hold pressed generate series of keypress
> > keyrelease events
> > (like the shift key or the right windows key)
> >
> > This leads to errors in the modifiers,
> > if you press the left shift key followed by the right shift key
> > then you will get uppercased chars for any alphabetical key
> > until you press again the left or the right shift key and release it.
> >
> >    I tested this without loading any xmodmap
> > and the behavior is the same (of course I then have the US
> > keyboard layout)
> >
> >    Any ideas what could be wrong here, can it be a configuration
> > issue or is this a server bug ?
> >    I tried also to run xev from a remote machine and the
> > result is exactly
> > the same,
> > this seems in favor of a server related problem, no ?
> >
> > Futhermore, the AltGr key which seemed to work for me this morning
> > (with the xmodmap.fr laoded), does not seem to work anymore...
> > strange, as I didn't change really much in my setup!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Pierre Muller
> > Institut Charles Sadron
> > 6,rue Boussingault
> > F 67083 STRASBOURG CEDEX (France)
> > mailto:muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr
> > Phone : (33)-3-88-41-40-07  Fax : (33)-3-88-41-40-99
> 
>