[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc3

[Viv Kendon]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> On Dec 7, 2008, at 13:55, Andrew Farmer wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing some weird keyboard-related issues... I'm still constantly 
>> getting the two messages
>>
>>   DarwinPressModifierKey bad keycode: key=7
>>   DarwinPressModifierKey bad keycode: key=5
>
> Yeah, it looks like some keypress combinations aren't 
> reported in the keymap. If you could figure out what 
> combination triggers those, it'd be a big help... From 
> what I've seen, they're mostly innocent.

I get these too.  They are related to backspaces I think, 
when editing text.  The Console doesn't update quite real 
time, but I think I get them pretty much any time I use the 
backspace key in a way that forces a line to be redrawn in 
xterm because I've erased some characters and retyped.

I just got some horrid command line editing mismatch in 
xterm that triggered loads of them consistently.  What was 
showing on screen didn't correspond to where the cursor was 
in terms of what was getting erased or retyped.  This 
happens to me all the time in Terminal.app, which is why I 
prefer xterm, so I'm not best pleased to suddenly get it in 
xterm as well.  I set up my prompt to appear in bold (using 
vt100 escape sequences I think, I have been copying this 
over from my .bashrc for years) so it is a challenging 
redraw environment, but xterm usually handles it correctly.

I have a UK keyboard layout, BTW, in case a non-US keyboard 
is part of the combination that triggers this.

And I'm not sure, but I think forcing a line to be redrawn 
other ways may trigger them too, so in pico (say) if you do 
^j to justify some text and it rearranges it.

>> in the console, along with one new one:
>>
>>   mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.

Yep, I saw some of these too.

> With 2.3.2_rc3?  Ugg.  This should be fixed now.
>
>> The real issue, though, is that I'm now seeing keys "sticking" again under

I don't see any sticky keys (but I don't run mplayer).

-- Viv
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