left and right arrow keys don't work in xterm

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Fri Oct 29 15:36:00 GMT 2010


On 10/29/2010 9:55 AM, J. David Boyd wrote:
>
> And I'll attach a run of cygcheck -k.  Run in a plain bash window.
>
> I pressed the left arrow key, the right arrow key, the up arrow key, the
> down arrow key, and q to quit.
>
> Note that the left and right arrow keys do show they are pressed but
> just once.   The other keys show key pressed, and key released.
>
> To me, this says that something about my xserver is eating keys?

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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