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




--On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:56 PM +0200 Alexander Gottwald <Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

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.

bye

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?

</edg>


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