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AW: AltGr key mostly fires an additional CONTROL key
- From: "Paul Maier" <svn-user at web dot de>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:13:20 +0200
- Subject: AW: AltGr key mostly fires an additional CONTROL key
- References: <4E4916B6.9030602@gmx.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> Hi,
>
> I also had problems with the AltGr key. These could reliably
> be reproduced by holding the AltGr for some seconds (causing
> Windows generating auto repeat events).
>
> Unfortunately the test version at
>
> ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20110801-git-2d9f9305cb559907.exe.bz2
>
> doesn't fix this problem for me.
>
> I discovered that the mechanism in winkeybd.c function
> winIsFakeCtrl_L had a problem if PeekMessage cannot obtain
> the next Alt_R message because it is not there.
>
> I prepared a patch that remembers the last Ctrl_L event and
> reacts on a later following Alt_R. It was also necessary to
> alter the order in winWindowProc in winwndproc.c: the invocation
> of winIsFakeCtrl_L had to be done before discarding auto-repeated
> key presses.
>
> The attached patch is against the sources of xserver-cygwin-1.10.3-1.
>
> Best regards,
> Oliver
Hi Oliver,
the ftp://.....exe.bz2 that you mention wasn't intended to contain any fix;
it only produces additional debug statements.
This is the one, that contains Jon's fix (works fine for me):
ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20110803-git-a493c0465e56ce0b.exe.bz2
Paul.
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