From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 109245 invoked by alias); 14 Dec 2016 21:33:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 109201 invoked by uid 89); 14 Dec 2016 21:33:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=D*towo.net, towo@towo.net, U*towo, towotowonet X-HELO: mail-vk0-f43.google.com Received: from mail-vk0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-vk0-f43.google.com) (209.85.213.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:33:11 +0000 Received: by mail-vk0-f43.google.com with SMTP id p9so48619199vkd.3 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:33:11 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=3rZFoNz5Cl/kr+PHTyAZx+gg4IE/5GNrMrvCD68gzdw=; b=kcmL/BWSqmSYlw7Op1ikJ+bd1dQgGoJxVMG+SRorSkj0k2XaXsoJunOGf6b7E4fFkf eCVwGG6dEsUYlcltW4JWzinX9a563q/OZY5iqwBNiDRYA00Ds5CNYlvGw/UgIEo4jF7A jmrWJXOdVsVeCkoCHNL7xvjspsJKYhHIn6xfCbCs305uVpTLEX30aQ/cqkK56bvpfJi/ zYBHtEWztkOPnYmRM/GHJJTNBbKNrFF6ijCPS1zu2ww1Z39hfh/eCHXtMPhnw7PoCip3 Bmarhec44C3pQvIgHGACWHsU5hR5PG0vHZhEp/zjIKYHgQPMsu8XUmrTQ9DAGLrCLLRK zBKg== X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC025bwsdyDBJbW/YLVmu4p3HdUE1vqJrWD9L5E0LQ0c6bYyM+Yu0Wp9+DTmxtmeTRx6exvUE7aI9ANThog== X-Received: by 10.31.124.203 with SMTP id x194mr43068965vkc.122.1481751189302; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:33:09 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.125.149 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:33:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: David Karr Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:33:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: mintty window gets tilde characters "pressed" in it To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00163.txt.bz2 On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > I've checked with Caffeine and traced mintty. It receives F15 key down, the > key up. Caffeine claims to send key up only but that's not true. Please > report this as a bug to Caffeine. Understood. I just did that. However, will that really make any difference? If mintty only receives the keyup event, will that make it ignore it entirely? > X11 does not seem to handle F13...F24 at all because they don't appear on a > typical PC keyboard (that's my assumption), so it doesn't occur in xterm. It > generates a ~ only in terminal applications because a number of key escape > sequences end with ~. > > The key event from Caffeine can be distinguished from a real key event, > because it does not include keyboard scancode information. So a workaround > is possible in theory. I'm not sure though whether that's a good idea as > there may be other applications that inject keys the same way, e.g. drivers > of other input devices, like Braille. > Opinions and information are appreciated. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple