Re: Why doesn't M-C-s work for me?

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 09/01/2012 18:32, Mark Geary wrote:
> <left Alt>-<left Ctrl>-s (will abbreviate as M-C-s from here-on) does
> nothing for me. Does anyone have any thoughts on why it might not be working?

This seems to work correctly for me:

KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001,
    root 0x206, subw 0x0, time 22102718, (105,96), root:(2137,224),
    state 0x1c, keycode 39 (keysym 0x73, s), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (13) ""
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (13) ""
    XFilterEvent returns: False

It might be the case that M-C-s has been made a Windows shell shortcut key, in
which case the Windows shell will process it before X server gets a chance to
see it.  You might wish to try the -keyhook X server option to see if that
changes anything.

> I have the left control and the caps lock keys swapped with a registry edit:
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout]
> "Scancode
> Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,3a,00,1d,00,00,00,00,00
>

You might want to try with that reverted, both to eliminate it and possible
mechanical limitations of your keyboard's caps lock key as a cause.

> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 1.5.3.0 (20090222)

I know this is the last X server release for Cygwin 1.5, but it is quite old
now.  While I can't think of any change made which might fix this, I can't
rule that out.  If this is a bug in the X server, a fixed X server will only
be made available for Cygwin 1.7

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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