cygwin forgets CTRL key press

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Fri Sep 16 12:28:00 GMT 2005


----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!

> 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.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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