[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.0 not playing well with spaces hot-key combination (locking control key)

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Sun Aug 3 17:46:42 PDT 2008


It's a start.  Thanks. =)  i'll probably take a look at this again in  
the next couple days, so if I'm able (or not) to reproduce it, I'll  
let you know.

--Jeremy

On Aug 3, 2008, at 17:39, Darren Nickerson wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> 1. My spaces preferences do have 'switching to an application, switch
> to a space with open windows for that application' selected. Other
> settings:
>
>  o spaces enabled (selected)
>  o show spaces in menu bar (selected)
>  o I have two row and three columns of spaces
>  o Application assignments have RSIGuard in every space
>  o To activate spaces F8 -
>  o To switch between spaces ^ Arrow Keys
>  o To switch directly to a space ^ Number Keys
>
> 2. I only have X11 running in one space. When I login it starts in
> space 1 (the application is set to start at login as part of my
> profile but I have not told it to go to space 5) so then I quit it,
> move to space 5 and restart it. I do not usually have X running in
> other spaces, as this has caused problems in the past for me.
>
> 3. To test this, I quit RSIGuard (which was running in all spaces).
> I'm pleased to report that when I switched to a space where no
> applications were running, the problem disappeared. When I restarted
> RSIGuard (which runs on all spaces) the problem returned.
>
> 4. If I do the keystrokes slowly as you have described, the problem
> does not occur. I start in the x windows spaces, then held CTRL, then
> hit arrow and held. Once in the new space I held both keys depressed
> for 2 seconds, and I noted the arrow (showing the transition I had
> just done) in the dock icon disappeared. Then I released CTRL, waited
> one second then released arrow. I repeated this sequence to get back
> to the original X11 space and I did not see the problem. I repeated
> this a few times to be sure.
>
> 5. For input, I have the bottom two selected (Follow system keyboard
> layout and Enable Key Equivalents.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> -Darren
>
> On Aug 3, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
>> Ok, so I had some time today and wanted to actually try reproducing
>> this, but I can't for the life of me get this to trigger.  Can you
>> please be as specific as possible in the following:
>>
>> 1) What are your spaces preferences?  Do you have "when switching to
>> an application, switch to a space with open windows for that
>> application" enabled?
>>
>> 2) Do you have X11 running in the "other" space (ie, the one you
>> switched to, then away from)?
>>
>> 3) Can you reproduce this with no running applications in the
>> "other" space?  (so when you switch there, you're just in Finder)
>>
>> 4) When you release the ctrl-arrow key (or ctrl-number key), can you
>> hold it down for about 2 seconds after going to the space, then
>> release the ctrl, then wait a second, then release the arrow.  I
>> want to see if there's some kind of race and you're "faster" than I
>> am or something...
>>
>> 5) Can you tell me what the X11 Preferences Input menu options are?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeremy
>>
>> On Aug 1, 2008, at 06:06, Darren Nickerson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 1, 2008, at 7:13 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> + Darren Nickerson <darren.nickerson at ifax.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> I just updated my 10.5.4 box to X11-2.3.0 and I'm experiencing a
>>>>> rather annoying issue. I use a hotkey combination (CTRL + arrow
>>>>> keys)
>>>>> to move around between spaces. When I use this combination to
>>>>> switch
>>>>> out of the space where X11 is runninig, whenever I return to that
>>>>> space (either by hotkeys or using the spaces dock icon) all of my
>>>>> xterms seem to think the CTRL key is still held down. [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this a known issue?
>>>>
>>>> Yes. I think it has finally moved up near the top of Jeremy's list
>>>> of
>>>> things to work on, so maybe a fix will be forthcoming.
>>>
>>> Ah, OK, thanks for the follow-up. I saw comments about issues with
>>> non-
>>> US keyboards, but I did not see this one listed.
>>>
>>>> A workaround, if you haven't already found it, is to hit the  
>>>> control
>>>> key after moving to the new space.
>>>
>>> Yup, that's what I have been using, but I frequently destroy a few
>>> xterms with accidental CTRL-D's before I realize what's  
>>> happening ;-)
>>>
>>> Since this is a known issue I'll assume you don't need test cases  
>>> and
>>> will downgrade for now. Many thanks again for the prompt reply!
>>>
>>> -Darren
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