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AW: AW: Can't paste text or type blind keys when mouse is out of the window
- From: "Paul Maier" <svn-user at web dot de>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "'Jon TURNEY'" <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:36:18 +0200
- Subject: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type blind keys when mouse is out of the window
- References: <000901cc54e1$1dca8c50$595fa4f0$@de> <4E6762AA.6020802@dronecode.org.uk> <002401cc6e69$3431eb90$9c95c2b0$@de> <4E69FB99.1000608@dronecode.org.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> >> I assume that you see the same behavior with other X applications, i.e. it's
> >> not xterm-specific?
> >
> > No, at least xedit works fine on my PC, with blind keys and with mouse text pasting,
> > no matter if the mouse pointer is really inside or on blue window frame or
> > (for blind keys:) really outside.
> >
>
> Actually, maybe this is an xterm problem?
>
> It seems to be somehow related to the xterm's --enable-toolbar configuration
> (which is turned on in the cygwin package). If I rebuild xterm with that
> disabled, the problem goes away, and I can also reproduce the problem on F15
> under twm if I build xterm with --enable-toolbar there (which is not enabled
> in the distro supplied package)
Hi Jon,
maybe it's a workaround to include two xterm builds in the cygwin release:
one xterm compiled with --enable-toolbar and the other having it disabled.
I don't use the toolbar, so I would have the blind keys working fine at zero cost.
Paul
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