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Re: xterm cursor jumping to start of line
- From: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: "cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>, Brian Keen <brian dot keen at gmail dot com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:04:58 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: xterm cursor jumping to start of line
- References: <c217749c0504070526631f652e@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Brian Keen wrote:
> I've seen 3 or 4 postings about this problem but as yet have not seen
> anyone offer a solution.
> I am experiencing the same fault.
> I am using Microsoft wireless keyboard. I wonder if this is the common factor?
> I have not experienced this problem when running other applications.
> It does not happen when I am using the cygwin bash shell console
> window - only when I use an xterm.
> I may have to try a non-wireless keyboard to see if it makes a difference.
I can't find any answer to the problem in the archives but I remember vaguely
it was a driver problem with the wireless keyboard. It reported some keypresses
which Xwin seems to interpret and the windows driver silently discards.
But unfortunatly I have not more information on this.
bye
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