Re: X11 gets key-downs that it shouldn't
Re: X11 gets key-downs that it shouldn't
- Subject: Re: X11 gets key-downs that it shouldn't
- From: Haroon Sheikh <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:10:02 -0800
We've already got a bug on this that we are tracking.
haroon
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 06:01 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Stefan" == Stefan Haller <email@hidden> writes:
Stefan> When X11.app is the front application, it sees some keys that
it
Stefan> shouldn't get:
Stefan> 1) When you pull down a menu, navigate with the arrow keys and
choose a
Stefan> menu entry with <return> or <space>, the X11 window that
has the
Stefan> focus gets the return or space key; if you cancel the menu
with Esc,
Stefan> the Esc key gets through too (annoying if emacs has the
focus). The
Stefan> arrow keys are not seen by X11 though.
Stefan> 2) If you press a system-wide hot key (e.g. defined with
Keyboard
Stefan> Maestro or DragThing), sometimes X11 sees the key too; but
not
Stefan> always. I haven't found a pattern yet. Also, sometimes
X11 only
Stefan> gets some of the modifiers; for example, if I define the
hot key
Stefan> ctrl-option-cmd-S to switch to a certain application,
sometimes X11
Stefan> will see this as ctrl-S (very annoying if a terminal is in
front,
Stefan> until you figure out that you have to press ctrl-Q to make
it work
Stefan> again).
I've gotten "q" quite a bit in my xterms as well, from having pressed
command-Q to quit an application that had launched in front of X11.
Very annoying.
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