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key repeats when other window pops up


>From the keyboard testing department, April 19 2002.

Today we noticed the following behaviour from XWin:

Whilst typing merrily away in an xterm-client, all of a sudden a message
window popped up, as message windows are wont to do.  The xterm-client lost
control, and did not notice that the end user had released the key he was
pressing in xterm, in this case, the "a"-key.  Under the impression that the
end-user was still holding the "a"-key, the xterm-client continued
displaying "a"-characters, and would still be doing so, had he not been
stopped by the end-user himself.

Please ignore this message if the behaviour described above is not, as is
often much to hastily concluded, a bug, but rather a feature to occupy the
clients while the end user is being distracted.

With the utmost respect,

we remain,

yours faithfully,

etc. etc.


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