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Re: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 14:27:14 -0400
- Subject: Re: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305281405470.18968-200000@ajax.its.yale.edu>
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Lev,
Lev Bishop wrote:
Looking through the archives it seems that people were discussing
something like this about a year ago (see the "double keystroke effects
with XP" thread), but I'm not sure if this is quite the same thing, since
that report talks about problems only with normal-speed typing and I get
it even for isolated keypresses.
Or even yesterday and today:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-05/msg00534.html
:)
Basically what happens is that occasionally a keystroke gets doubled. Its
nothing to do with focus changes AFAICT (see "New devel to-do item
(release all pressed keyboard keys on focus loss)" thread). Most often
noticable with doubled newline after completing a command. I've only
observed it for xterm but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen for other
clients. The most reliable way I know to replicate it is to do something
like "info coreutils" and then slowly keep pressing "n" for the next
topic. Maybe 1 time in 10 you can see it actually jumps 2 topics not 1.
Run 'xset r off'. That should fix your problem. If not, try fiddling
with the Windows key repeat rate in the Control Panel.
Please let use know if either of these fixes your problem.
Harold