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RE: [ANNOUNCE] XWin Keyboard test 5
- To: "'Corinna Vinschen'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] XWin Keyboard test 5
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:02:06 -0400
- Cc: "'cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
Check the ~/.Xresources file on your Linux box
You can copy it to $HOME directory under cygwin
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 4:54 PM
> To: cygx
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] XWin Keyboard test 5
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:24:01PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:59:43PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The kbd-test-5 release of the keyboard test is available at
> > > http://www.gotti.org or [1]
> > >
> > > It is based on Harolds test-15 release.
> > >
> > > I fixed the Alt_R handling (hope so).
> > > It is not fully tested what happens if you press
> Control_L and Alt_R
> > > simultaniously.
> > > The debug messages are again switched on, but i provide a
> version without
> > > them.
> > >
> > > I have not tested it on WinNT.
> >
> > Works fine. Thank you!
>
> I have found an interesting difference when using xterm. For
> example the key "cursor left" produces the triple
>
> ESC [ D
>
> in xterm regardless of the mode (normal, shift, control, alt).
>
> When using an xterm in a Linux X server or under a VNC server,
> the xterm bahaves the same, except when pressing the Alt key.
> In that case it produces the byte sequence
>
> ESC ESC [ D
>
> which allows convenient key bindings in a shell. Why does it
> not behave that way in XWin?
>
> Corinna
>
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