Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

[Luke Kendall <luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au>]

On 15 Sep, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>  On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Luke Kendall wrote:
>  
> > Has anyone else noted that in vi (either in a plain Cygwin window or in
> > an rxvt window, in an X session or not, also in xterm), that if you hold
> > down the CTRL key and press keys at intervals (like F to page down
> > through a file), and wait four seconds before another key press it's as
> > if you don't have CTRL pressed at all?  You have to release it and press
> > afresh.
>  >
> > The same applies to "more": hold CTRL down and press f, and it beeps at
> > you to indicate that's invalid; still hold CTRL down, wait 4 seconds,
> > then press f again, and it pages forward.
>  >
> > This behaviour has been present for years, BTW, it's not new.
>  
>  I suspect it's not Cygwin-related.  This sounds like the Windows "sticky
>  keys" accessibility feature -- if any modifier key is held for some period
>  of time (more than 8 seconds, I think), Windows offers to turn on sticky
>  keys.  Even if the feature is disabled, the 8-second timer may be started
>  every time the key is pressed.  I wouldn't be surprised if this is the
>  cause of the behavior you observe...
>  	Igor

I checked, but found that I have "Sticky keys" turned off in the control
panel accessibility options.

Also, I've timed it roughly and it's close to 4 seconds, not 8.  And if
it's due to this, wouldn't Larry have been able to reproduce it??

I'm now checking with other Cygwin users here to see if we can see what
controls the reproducibility.  I'll let you know the results.

(BTW, FWIW I'm running Windows XP sp1.)

Regards,

luke


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