public inbox for cygwin-xfree@sourceware.org
help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: "'Jon TURNEY'" <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Subject: Re: AW: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type blind keys when mouse is out of the window
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111004205554.E27291@mail101.his.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001cc82f8$f64689e0$e2d39da0$@de>
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Paul Maier wrote:
>
>>>>>> I assume that you see the same behavior with other X applications, i.e. it's
>>>>>> not xterm-specific?
>>>>>
>>>>> No, at least xedit works fine on my PC, with blind keys and with mouse text pasting,
>>>>> no matter if the mouse pointer is really inside or on blue window frame or
>>>>> (for blind keys:) really outside.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Actually, maybe this is an xterm problem?
>>>>
>>>> It seems to be somehow related to the xterm's --enable-toolbar configuration
>>>> (which is turned on in the cygwin package). If I rebuild xterm with that
>>>> disabled, the problem goes away, and I can also reproduce the problem on F15
>>>> under twm if I build xterm with --enable-toolbar there (which is not enabled
>>>> in the distro supplied package)
>>
>> hmm - I'm not clear on precisely what a "blind key" is. Sounds like a
>> compose sequence - and if so, it's puzzling that passing key-presses from
>> different levels in the widget hierarchy would interfere with that.
>>
>> The main difference with the toolbar configuration is that xterm's using a
>> form to contain the toolbar and the vt100 window. The buttons take care
>> of themselves, but that area to the right of the buttons is dead.
>>
>> To make it somewhat friendlier, xterm adds the actions used for the vt100
>> window (except for the ones related to the mouse) to the toolbar area.
>>
>> I omitted the mouse-related ones since it seems that they'd interfere with
>> the menus. I also did the same for the scrollbar widget (since keystrokes
>> there used to be lost - it would seem that you could reproduce your
>> problem also by looking at the behaviour around the scrollbar).
>
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> yes, with mouse over the scrollbar the problem is reproducable.
>
> A blind key is a key that needs to be followed by another key to produce something.
>
> The problem here is, when running vi in an xterm and the mouse slowly (unnoticed)
> moves over the scrollbar or out of the xterm, and you want to jump to mark "a,
> you need to enter `a, that is in keystrokes
That seems to be what I was referring to as "compose sequence".
I'll experiment to see if I can reproduce this effect with my environment.
thanks for the detailed explanation.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/
FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-05 1:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-07 9:06 Paul Maier
2011-09-07 12:25 ` Jon TURNEY
2011-09-08 20:53 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-09-09 11:42 ` Jon TURNEY
2011-10-03 10:37 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-10-04 0:35 ` Thomas Dickey
2011-10-05 0:54 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-10-05 1:00 ` Thomas Dickey [this message]
2011-10-30 23:04 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-10-31 3:33 ` Thomas Dickey
2012-07-22 0:28 ` AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type dead " Paul Maier
2012-07-23 9:01 ` Thomas Dickey
2011-10-05 13:03 ` AW: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type blind " Jon TURNEY
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20111004205554.E27291@mail101.his.com \
--to=dickey@his.com \
--cc=cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com \
--cc=jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).