Re: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

2003-06-01 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
At 19:43 28/05/2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Now, if I could only find a way to turn this off programmatically, once and for all. This X key repeat feature is completely unnecessary since Windows handles key repeats for us. I tried to interface with the same code that xset interfaces with,

problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

2003-05-29 Thread Lev Bishop
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

Re: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

2003-05-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
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

Re: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

2003-05-29 Thread Lev Bishop
Well, it looks like while I was composing that message there were people solving the same problem. How nice that the cygwin/xfree86 community is so responsive as to be able to post me fixes before I've even finished posting the problem report ;-) Anyway, xset r off does, indeed, seem to fix my

Re: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

2003-05-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Lev, Lev Bishop wrote: Well, it looks like while I was composing that message there were people solving the same problem. How nice that the cygwin/xfree86 community is so responsive as to be able to post me fixes before I've even finished posting the problem report ;-) We aim to please :)

FW: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

2003-05-29 Thread Fries, David D
The correct solution if you asked me is to ignore the windows repeat events and use this X feature that is causing the problem. I would say this is the correct thing to do because of the very reason that the feature was included in X in the first place (at least I assume it is the reason). It

Re: FW: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

2003-05-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
David, No need to CC me on replies. Please don't. Fries, David D wrote: The correct solution if you asked me is to ignore the windows repeat events and use this X feature that is causing the problem. I would say this is the correct thing to do because of the very reason that the feature was