From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [217.72.192.75]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC3A73857C5E for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:55:41 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org BC3A73857C5E Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=towo.net Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=towo@towo.net Received: from [192.168.178.45] ([95.90.245.244]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue107 [212.227.15.183]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1M4JVv-1kVZRy42s5-000OZc for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:55:40 +0200 Subject: Re: tab key (temporarily) locks keyboard To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Thomas Wolff X-Tagtoolbar-Keys: D20201021195537954 Message-ID: <3679c858-9572-7a4b-3686-4b223b66aea1@towo.net> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:55:38 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:zGGdWpWpaEpjfAx5QjEboU8YgUoid0wvqweVRIw/rna2IDP8w/g sr+ACYc/H/rdjunz49NaUTjiPxdiea30bVIMqfLr87cWniTu4W1/OEotLbndRhj1FyTfu8D q1cwM9UXZOKzTomvhPEPwb3ZvHGrvMBc+qTXFbY8Wq5SWYtjdI3HgsRERrIpa8I4MHp+Pf/ +WxduPDykE3ge89+nBV0A== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:EfVFInsntz8=:mzmS1ui684bdXzN3qaskde p+EuMmT6p3amJlfbjcinnJVYiO5dIQZluRgiG6qaKhk7P5DBMqHQwKHTTcBb4LezmO5ugVa4U 0lhWeRyWQswOPbup8UPLA+p5PeGip28lbd4nm4C+wDB0ZPuoLBXmWvaUHpiCF5zAwDtL6/avU zDDAbf5Wt6JbfC9QiOqEwsh9br5HXJw3N6HcaOHiVBC305cop/Qg756PIZ6QeKd1flKGNmqjy im0hd/GVxNk4MIE1pxEtyQNNjacKLug8665s06pIHdPng4EobtMCpbXVW/DHCH33VUQGBh24q TYj86FEudUCKllMTad0uVFxyCXrR7OZbf4X8NxF9+t6HLcbrg6EaxFylNADzLwbIAR8r3Hr6D ud7jXBwlvPDxCf0JTfV4VwfH3Z9e0au8vt2538d187smP8qsmoVggJPrialCE X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NONE, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:55:43 -0000 Please don't "top-post" here. Am 21.10.2020 um 19:45 schrieb Frank Eske via Cygwin: > There may be some other key or key combination on the left side of the > keyboard that's doing this also. While the tab key can reproducibly cause > it, some other key combination might also. > > Since my bash version is Jan 27, 2017 and none of my .bash scripts have > changed recently, xterm (Sep 20, 2020) seems like the most likely culprit. > I did create a .fonts file for experimentation which is just now removed. > (It's too early to tell whether that somehow created this problem.) The issue has been explained and it's not related to xterm. > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 2:07 PM Frank Eske wrote: > >> If the tab key is entered as the first character running the bash shell on >> an xterm terminal, the keyboard temporarily locks. Control-C writes ^C but >> doesn't unlock it. This doesn't happen on Fedora. It also doesn't lock if a >> space is typed first. >> >> This occurs whether or not the xterm console is in an X environment. >> >> For some reason I seem to accidentally do this a lot more often than I'd >> like, so it's a real nuisance. I checked this mailing list for the last >> four months and couldn't find " tab" or a useful "tab ", I find it >> difficult to believe that I'm the first to see this, so maybe there's >> something I changed that's making this happen. Any advice on what that >> might be? >> >> >> > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple