On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 02:08:29AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:38:56PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:57:58 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 is now in unstable. Do they keys work for > > > you now? > > > > Yes, thank you, I no longer can reproduce the problem where the first > > use of Alt, Meta, etc. per login session is ignored. > > Excellent.
Sadly, the problem returned, then went away, then returned, etc. A day or so after reporting its disappearance I saw the problem again, but so fleetingly I wondered if I had really pressed the modifier key. Yesterday it came back with a vengeance, but just when I was trying to isolate a test case it went away again. It returned this morning, but it's obviously intermittent. The behavior: I start X (with kdm or startx), open an xterm, hit ^D to close it and just get "d". As long as I keep the Ctrl key held down I can keep hitting "d" all I want and I get "ddddd" etc. Then I release Ctrl, and the next ^D is interpreted properly. Same for Meta. > > I do still have the problem where in an xterm (but not an Emacs > > window) I have to press Alt+Windows to get the effect of Alt. This one is 100% reproducible. Thank you so much for all your hard work, --Pete
