RE: modifier oddity

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

Jeff,

> Using xfree86 on my windows 2000 machine with the latest version of
cygwin,
> looks like the modifiers (alt, shift, ctrl) don't work quite right.  I am
> using "xev" to look at what's going on and I see that the modifiers send a
> keypress and keyrelease, but it does it constantly while I hold it down.
On
> a xfree86 port to Alpha/OSF (vncserver) (same on Solaris vncserver), I see
> what a expect, a keypress event when I press the key, nothing until I
> release it, when I get the keyrelease event.

Point me to some justification for changing the current behaviour.  The
current behaviour is really easy because it just passes on the Windows
keypress events (Windows generates the repeated events).

Give me a really good explanation for why this is preventing you from using
Cygwin/XFree86 as it is now.  Your current lack of an explanation doesn't do
much for your cause.  I mean, I'm not exactly going to drop my beer and run
inside to program just because somebody out there isn't using Cygwin/XFree86
because of bug X, missing feature Y, or failure to comply to standard Z.
Sheesh...

Of course, you could probably modify the source code to filter the multiple
keypress events in less time than it would take you to come up with a good
enough explanation to get me to act, but I digress...

Harold