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Re: 6.8.2.0-2: Shift and control keys don't operate


On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Ed Greenberg wrote:

> --On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:56 PM +0200 Alexander Gottwald
> <Alexander.Gottwald@XXXXX.XX-XXXXXXXX.XX> wrote:

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> > Ed Greenberg wrote:
> >
> > > Following up my own post. I note while running xev that the shift
> > > and control keys do not cause events. The xev output window
> > > indicates all the other keys, but not those.
> >
> > That's odd. What kind of keyboard do you have? Maybe there are
> > programs running which grab some of the keys and translate them to a
> > different kind of messages.
>
> This is a pretty plain vanilla Win XP Prof SP2 installation.
>
> Can somebody on XP SP2 with a US keyboard please run xev and see if
> shift and control keys generate scancodes?

They do here:

----------------------------------- Cutting here may damage your screen ----
KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001,
    root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29187866, (177,177), root:(241,260),
    state 0x0, keycode 49 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001,
    root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29188050, (177,177), root:(241,260),
    state 0x1, keycode 49 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001,
    root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29188767, (177,177), root:(241,260),
    state 0x0, keycode 61 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001,
    root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29188952, (177,177), root:(241,260),
    state 0x1, keycode 61 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001,
    root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29190504, (177,177), root:(241,260),
    state 0x0, keycode 36 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001,
    root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29190800, (177,177), root:(241,260),
    state 0x4, keycode 36 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001,
    root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29191359, (177,177), root:(241,260),
    state 0x0, keycode 94 (keysym 0xffe4, Control_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001,
    root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29191592, (177,177), root:(241,260),
    state 0x4, keycode 94 (keysym 0xffe4, Control_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001,
    root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29194456, (177,177), root:(241,260),
    state 0x0, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001,
    root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29194671, (177,177), root:(241,260),
    state 0x8, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
----------------------------------- Cutting here may damage your screen ----

Left Alt and Fn don't generate any events (Windows intercepts both).
	Igor
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