RE: asynchronous popups hide key release

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

John,

I've got the build process described, step-by-step, in the Contributor's
Guide:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg/

The instructions should be easy enough for a monkey to follow...

If not, let me know what things need to be made clearer.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> John_Tobey@notes.intdata.com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 2:07 PM
> To: Alexander Gottwald
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: asynchronous popups hide key release
>
>
>
>
> Well I'd have a look, but my experiences with compiling X on
> Linux have left me
> very impatient.  Is it possible (read: easy) to build Xwin
> without the whole xc
> tree?  Perhaps one of the developers would be nice enough to tar
> up their build
> tree, obj files and CVS dirs included, so that a newbie could
> edit a few C files
> and run a nice, quick, incremental make without all of the
> torturous setup and
> false starts that have left me jaded.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>
>
>
>
> Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
> on 19-09-2001
> 01:31:13 PM
>
> To:
> cc:   cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com (bcc: John Tobey/Intdata)
>
> Subject:  Re: asynchronous popups hide key release
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 John_Tobey@notes.intdata.com wrote:
>
> >
> > One annoyance comes from the interaction with X and native
> Windows apps that
> run
> > in the background and occasionally pop up a window to notify me
> of e.g. new
> > mail.  If I happen to be typing and have a key down when the
> popup appears, X
> > does not notice that I release the key, and it goes into auto
> repeat, sending
> > dozens of keystroke messages to apps until I press another key with X in
> focus.
>
> I hear rumors that some versions of tweakui have an option which prevents
> other windows applications from "stealing" the focus, but I could not
> verify this.
>
> > IMHO, the X server should handle de-focus events (if there are
> such things?)
> by
> > considering any keys are currently down to be released.  At the
> very least, it
> > should disable autorepeat when it doesn't have focus.
>
> You are welcome to code it. You can reuse parts of the code where we
> release the control and alt keys on losing focus.
>
> bye
>      ago
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