RE: Keyboard problems

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Pierre,

I've downloaded the source code for vnc on Windows.  VNC has a pretty clear
method of dealing with the AltGr key, so I'll be reworking the AltGr
handling within the next couple of days.

Oh, I should state the AltGr, until now, has not been handled at all;
therefore, the operational status of AltGr on various computers will be
completely random.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> Pierre Muller
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:41 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Keyboard problems
>
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>
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>    The X server seems to make strange things under win95 at least:
>
> Several keys when hold pressed generate series of keypress
> keyrelease events
> (like the shift key or the right windows key)
>
> This leads to errors in the modifiers,
> if you press the left shift key followed by the right shift key
> then you will get uppercased chars for any alphabetical key
> until you press again the left or the right shift key and release it.
>
>    I tested this without loading any xmodmap
> and the behavior is the same (of course I then have the US
> keyboard layout)
>
>    Any ideas what could be wrong here, can it be a configuration
> issue or is this a server bug ?
>    I tried also to run xev from a remote machine and the
> result is exactly
> the same,
> this seems in favor of a server related problem, no ?
>
> Futhermore, the AltGr key which seemed to work for me this morning
> (with the xmodmap.fr laoded), does not seem to work anymore...
> strange, as I didn't change really much in my setup!
>
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>
> Pierre Muller
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