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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: Paul Maier <svn-user@web.de>, dickey@his.com
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 13:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E8C556E.7020607@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001cc82f8$f64689e0$e2d39da0$@de>
On 05/10/2011 01:51, 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).
>
>
> 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.
I think this is usually called a 'dead key'
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Jon TURNEY
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-05 13:03 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
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 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
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