> From: Raffael Stocker <r.stoc...@mnet-mail.de> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:26:21 +0200 > > Raffael Stocker <r.stoc...@mnet-mail.de> writes: > > > this is a weird one (and long, apologies). On MS Windows, it sometimes > > happens that a windows key gets stuck, that is, it remains (logically) > > pressed down, and this behaviour is correlated with Emacs use. A > > colleague and I are seeing this on two installations with Emacs 28.2 and > > 29.2 on Windows 10 and 11. Unfortunately, this is somewhat random and > > we have not found a way to trigger it directly. > > [...] > > We have had good results with increasing the ‘LowLevelHooksTimeout’, but > > we had to set it to the maximum value of 1000 ms. I am not sure about > > the default value; the internet claims it to be 200 ms. > > I believe I can now provide an update here. The last few (2...3) months > we have been running Emacs 30 on two machines, with > ‘LowLevelHooksTimeout’ set to 10 (to more easily trigger this bug). In > this time, we have not seen the bug at all. > > To confirm that this is connected to the Emacs version we were running, > my colleague has now used Emacs 29.2 for a couple of days. And lo and > behold, on the second day, the bug re-surfaced: she pressed the windows > key in Emacs, then changed to some other program and there it was. > > So, it seems we can be reasonably confident that something in Emacs 30 > fixed this bug. Perhaps it was the WTS_SESSION fix after all (although > then I don't understand how), or it was something else. > > I don't know whether this qualifies as good enough to close this issue, > but I suspect we might not be seeing this bug again.
Thanks, I will soon close this bug if no further comments are posted.
