RE: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

2005-09-18 Thread Luke Kendall
On 16 Sep, Dave Korn wrote: > > I suspect it may be the keyboard or perhaps the KVM switch > >Bingo. That'll be it. It cancels keypresses to prevent state getting > stuck when you switch from one machine to another. Yes, after trying (and failing to reproduce the problem here on oth

RE: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

2005-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Owen Rees >Sent: 16 September 2005 13:03 > A quick test with xev under both Linux and Cygwin/X on two systems I have > here shows a key release event for CTRL about 4 seconds after I release > whatever other key I pressed - I was still holding the CTRL key down! >

Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

2005-09-16 Thread Owen Rees
A quick test with xev under both Linux and Cygwin/X on two systems I have here shows a key release event for CTRL about 4 seconds after I release whatever other key I pressed - I was still holding the CTRL key down! I also see this in a standard Windows Command Prompt window (i.e. Cygwin not i

RE: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

2005-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Brooks Moses >Sent: 16 September 2005 08:05 > seconds. (I also can't reproduce Igor's claim that Windows will offer > to turn on sticky-keys if I hold down a modifier key too long.) Check control panel/accessibility options; you may have turned it off at some

Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

2005-09-16 Thread Brooks Moses
Luke Kendall wrote: Has anyone else noted that in vi (either in a plain Cygwin window or in an rxvt window, in an X session or not, also in xterm), that if you hold down the CTRL key and press keys at intervals (like F to page down through a file), and wait four seconds before another key press i

Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

2005-09-15 Thread Larry Finger
Luke Kendall wrote: On 15 Sep, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Luke Kendall wrote: Has anyone else noted that in vi (either in a plain Cygwin window or in an rxvt window, in an X session or not, also in xterm), that if you hold down the CTRL key and press keys at intervals (lik

Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

2005-09-15 Thread Luke Kendall
On 15 Sep, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Luke Kendall wrote: > > > Has anyone else noted that in vi (either in a plain Cygwin window or in > > an rxvt window, in an X session or not, also in xterm), that if you hold > > down the CTRL key and press keys at intervals (like F to p

Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

2005-09-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Luke Kendall wrote: > Has anyone else noted that in vi (either in a plain Cygwin window or in > an rxvt window, in an X session or not, also in xterm), that if you hold > down the CTRL key and press keys at intervals (like F to page down > through a file), and wait four second

Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

2005-09-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:25 PM 9/15/2005, you wrote: >Has anyone else noted that in vi (either in a plain Cygwin window or in >an rxvt window, in an X session or not, also in xterm), that if you hold >down the CTRL key and press keys at intervals (like F to page down >through a file), and wait four seconds before ano