From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27624 invoked by alias); 27 Dec 2003 14:03:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 27617 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2003 14:03:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay.mail.areti.net) (193.109.192.70) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Dec 2003 14:03:34 -0000 Received: from halkidiki.areti.com (root@halkidiki.areti.com [193.109.192.71]) by relay.mail.areti.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Areti-4.0.0R) with ESMTP id hBRE3XeZ013448 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 14:03:33 GMT Received: (from chris@localhost) by halkidiki.areti.com (8.11.7-20030925/8.11.7) id hBRE3Xc20401 for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 14:03:33 GMT Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:16:00 -0000 From: Chris Green To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Keyboard auto-repeat defaults when using 'xwin -query ' Message-ID: <20031227140333.GA20372@areti.co.uk> Reply-To: chris.green@isbd.co.uk References: <20031226231321.GA18654@areti.co.uk> <3FECC71A.1090102@msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FECC71A.1090102@msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00388.txt.bz2 List-Id: On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 06:41:14PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Chris, > > Chris Green wrote: > >The problem is that when I connect using cygwin/xfree the auto-repeat > >is set to silly values, if I do an 'xset -q' I get:- > > > >auto repeat: on key click persent: 0 LED mask: 0000000000 > >auto repeat delay: 100 repeat rate: 10 > >.... > > > >That auto repeat delay is much too short. > Thanks for the response and for treating me gently, I'm just feeling my way in cygwin/X although I have been using Unix/Linux for many years (since the early 1980s in fact). > When running locally, I get: > > Keyboard Control: > auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000 > auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 31 > auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf > fadfffffffdffdff > ffffffffffffffff > ffffffffffffffff > bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 > Just about exactly what I get except for the auto repeat delay values which I reported above. > When logged into a remote machine via -query I get exactly the same > values. I do not have an XF86Config file, and I am not passing any of > the following command-line parameters to XWin.exe: > > ====================================================================== > The X Keyboard Extension adds the following arguments: > -kb disable the X Keyboard Extension > +kb enable the X Keyboard Extension > [+-]accessx [ timeout [ timeout_mask [ feedback [ options_mask] ] ] ] > enable/disable accessx key sequences > -ar1 set XKB autorepeat delay > -ar2 set XKB autorepeat interval > > [...] > > -xf86config > Specify a configuration file. > ====================================================================== > I'm running using a copy of startxwin.bat with the XWIn start line set to "start XWin -query server". I have no XF86Config either. > My /tmp/XWin.log file has the following: > > ====================================================================== > (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 > (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) > (EE) No primary keyboard configured > (==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard > Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" > Options = "(null)" > ====================================================================== > > Could you please confirm that you are not passing any additional args to > XWin.exe, then send in your XWin.log files from both a local session and > from a session when you use -query to connect to a remote machine? That > should help us to investigate the problem. > The remote XWin.log file is:- ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1600 h 1200 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0 (EE) Unable to locate/open config file InitOutput - Error reading config file winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001f InitOutput - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per pixel winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1600 h: 1200 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1600 h: 1200 winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 33 0 1200 1600 winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 33 0 1200 1600 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1594 h 1137 r 1594 l 0 b 1137 t 0 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Created primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 3188 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow pitch: 3188 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow stride: 1594 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16 bpp 16 winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () winFinishScreenInitFB - returning winScreenInit - returning InitOutput - Returning. MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000809" (00000809) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (United Kingdom)" (809), type "4" (EE) No primary keyboard configured (==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 797 568 winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned The local XWin.log file is identical apart from the following extra line:- _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root (a local X session has the same problems as a remote one) I will see what logging (if any) that my commercial XWin-32 does and if there's anything useful I'll report that too. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)