Re: keyboard jams when switching windows tasks

[Pim <reinders at nlr dot nl>]

Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald <at> s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> writes:

> 
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Daniel Goertzen wrote:
> 
> > xev behaved correctly when the xev window had focus when I switched to a 
> > MS Windows app (I assume correct means that it spewed key and mouseover 
> > events)
> > 
> > When the Konsole that launched xev was given focus and I did the 
> > freezing trick, all output halted until I did the unfreezing trick 
> > again.  I did observe that in the frozen state, pressing ctrl-C in the 
> > launching Konsole made the xev window go away, but still no signs of 
> > life in the Konsole itself.  Maybe just the output of the Konsole is 
> > getting jammed up rather than the input?
> 
> Hm. Quite interesting. 
> 
> I'll meet some KDE people on weekend. Maybe they can give some hints what
> happening
> 
> bye
> 	ago

Got exactly the same problem. 
The keyboard output on the re-focussed konsole seems to be buffered. The konsole
can also be unfreezed by hitting the WindowsKey twice.
The buffered text will then be displayed at once (and all the crap you entered
in the blind will be executed!!)
This behavior might depend on the exact Windows-XP SP II update. I've seen this
behavior since I'd say about the beginning of this month (march 2007). 
Windows updates since 1 Feb 2007:
KB928090, KB927779, KB928255, KB924667, KB918118, KB926436, KB928843, KB927802,
Windows Imaging Component, KB931836, KB925720




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