On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Thomas Wolff <t...@towo.net> 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
