Comment 23 for bug 6970

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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:41:28 -0500
From: Pete Harlan <email address hidden>
To: Branden Robinson <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#254923: xserver-xfree86: [keyboard] alt key not working

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