"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > I've noticed something that I think is an XF4.0 bug, but I thought I'd > check it with y'all first. > > I've had problems with this for quite some time. I'll be working in > Emacs and scrolling down a bunch of text (Control-V), and I'll pause > for a few seconds, still holding down the control key, then when I try > to resume by hitting the 'V' it prints it to my buffer instead of > scrolling. > > So I started up xev, and sure enough, about 4 seconds after I release > the 'V' key, I get a Key_Release on the control key, even though I'm > still holding it down. If I just hold down the control I don't get the > spurious key release. The same happens with the Meta- key, as well as > with other character combinations (not just 'V'). > > What's up with this?? It's a riteous pain in the butt, and it's a > bug. Any ideas of where to look for a fix? I used to work fine, but > around the time I switched to XF4.0 it started happening.
Any chance you also switched to the new input layer at that time? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
