Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Luke Kendall wrote:

> Has anyone else noted that in vi (either in a plain Cygwin window or in
> an rxvt window, in an X session or not, also in xterm), that if you hold
> down the CTRL key and press keys at intervals (like F to page down
> through a file), and wait four seconds before another key press it's as
> if you don't have CTRL pressed at all?  You have to release it and press
> afresh.
>
> The same applies to "more": hold CTRL down and press f, and it beeps at
> you to indicate that's invalid; still hold CTRL down, wait 4 seconds,
> then press f again, and it pages forward.
>
> This behaviour has been present for years, BTW, it's not new.

I suspect it's not Cygwin-related.  This sounds like the Windows "sticky
keys" accessibility feature -- if any modifier key is held for some period
of time (more than 8 seconds, I think), Windows offers to turn on sticky
keys.  Even if the feature is disabled, the 8-second timer may be started
every time the key is pressed.  I wouldn't be surprised if this is the
cause of the behavior you observe...
	Igor
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