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key bounce problem
- From: Stacey Campbell <stacey at pigtailproductions dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 13:51:47 +1000 (EST)
- Subject: key bounce problem
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I've been experiencing a fairly annoying key bounce problem with almost
any X client that takes keyboard input running against XWin on my XP
box. The problem rears its ugly head the most when running xterm.
I searched the archive for this list for "xterm", "debounce", "keyboard",
etc but couldn't find a message with a solution.
The keyboard code for XWin appears to ignore xset's "r" option, likewise
it appears to ignore XKEYBOARD args such as -ar1 as detailed on the
Xserver man page. The keyboard code doesn't ignore XP's keyboard
control settings however. I modified Control Panel->Keyboard->Repeat Delay
to be one notch slower and the keyboard bounce problems magically went
away. This fix obviously modifies the behavior of the keyboard for every
Windows app, but since I spend 99% of the time inside XFree86 I'm
quite happy with it. :-)
I don't know if this fix applies to anything other than XP, but I
thought I should subscribe to this list and get this message into the
archive in case someone else runs into the same problem down the road.
Stacey
http://www.pigtailproductions.com/stacey/