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RE: cygwin forgets CTRL key press
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:13:36 +0100
- Subject: RE: cygwin forgets CTRL key press
----Original Message----
>From: Owen Rees
>Sent: 16 September 2005 13:03
> A quick test with xev under both Linux and Cygwin/X on two systems I have
> here shows a key release event for CTRL about 4 seconds after I release
> whatever other key I pressed - I was still holding the CTRL key down!
> I suspect it may be the keyboard or perhaps the KVM switch
Bingo. That'll be it. It cancels keypresses to prevent state getting
stuck when you switch from one machine to another.
cheers,
DaveK
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