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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: 'cygwin-xfree' <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Cc: Paul Maier <svn-user@web.de>
Subject: Re: AW: AltGr key mostly fires an additional CONTROL key
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E3949E0.6090306@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001cc5085$6b711fb0$42535f10$@de>
>> The actual issue here is that Windows apparently inserts a fake Ctrl-L
>> keypress/release when AltGr is pressed/released (except when the keyboard
>> layout is US). I have never found any documentation of this behavior, and
>> I've no idea why it does this.
>>
>> There is some code in the X server which attempts to detect and discard these
>> fake keypress/release events, but it not working reliably for some people has
>> been reported a few times, but I've never been able to reproduce the problem
>> or get to the bottom of what causes it.
>>
>> If you are willing to help, I've put together a test build with some extra
>> debugging at [1]. If you could run that with '-logverbose 3' as before and
>> attach the output, that would be helpful.
>>
>> [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20110801-git-2d9f9305cb559907.exe.bz2
>>
> no problem - here we go:
> The logs are attached.
>
> This is what I did:
>
> 1. /bin/startxwin -- XWin.20110801-git-2d9f9305cb559907.exe -emulate3buttons 100 -logverbose 3
> 2. It took me more attempts than usual to reproduce it, therefore the interesting part will be at the end of the log.
> 3. I manually killed the X-Server and took the log.
> 4. XWin.0.log is the full log of the session.
> 5. xev.txt: I have taken only the "interesting" part.
>
> My session in detail:
>
> I pressed several times AltGr and Q, nothing special, I get "@" (it doesn't happen always - just then and when).
> I hold down AltGr for 2 seconds ... I play around.
> Then I get into the bug:
> I press AltGr and Q, then release both keys: I get CHAR 00.
> I just hit key A and instead of "a" I get CHAR 01 = CONTROL-A.
> I just hit key C and instead of "c" I get CHAR 03 = CONTROL-C.
> Then I (first time) hit the real CONTROL key to unlock that situation. In the xev-log you see only(!) a ReleaseEvent at that point.
> Then I press AltGr and Q again and I get CHAR HEX 40 = letter "@".
> I hit key A and get "a".
Thanks for the logs, that was very useful.
I still can't reproduce this (although holding AltGr down to make it
autorepeat seems the best way to try to do that). It is a timing issue with
the keypress/release messages so it might be sensitive to CPU speed, or
perhaps you have some software installed which looks at keypress/release
messages and changes the timing?
I've had a go at fixing it. Can you please try the build I've uploaded at [1]
and see if it still shows the problem for you?
[1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20110803-git-a493c0465e56ce0b.exe.bz2
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <006301cc4fb3$2696d060$73c47120$@de>
2011-08-01 14:57 ` Jon TURNEY
[not found] ` <000001cc5085$6b711fb0$42535f10$@de>
2011-08-03 13:15 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2011-08-04 2:22 ` AW: AW: " Paul Maier
2011-08-08 15:32 ` 'de' keyboard layout issues (Re: AW: AW: AltGr key mostly fires an additional CONTROL key) Jon TURNEY
2011-08-08 23:17 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-08-10 12:12 ` Jon TURNEY
2011-08-12 6:49 ` Paul Maier
2011-08-16 13:10 ` Jon TURNEY
2011-10-03 11:29 ` AW: AW: 'de' keyboard layout issues Paul Maier
2012-08-06 12:49 ` Jon TURNEY
2012-07-22 0:22 ` Paul Maier
2012-08-06 12:22 ` AW: 'de' keyboard layout issues (Re: AW: AW: AltGr key mostly fires an additional CONTROL key) Jon TURNEY
2011-10-03 10:16 ` AW: AW: AltGr key mostly fires an additional CONTROL key Paul Maier
2011-08-15 12:53 Oliver Schmidt
2011-08-15 17:14 ` AW: " Paul Maier
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