XWin cant lock the screen

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

Patches are welcome.  Actually one cane look at the  code for
xf_dx.dll, code for foreign keyboard can be added to it to query
the control panel settings.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Gottwald
> [ mailto:alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de ]
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 9:14 AM
> To: Suhaib Siddiqi
> Cc: Alexander Gottwald; cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: RE: XWin cant lock the screen
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
> >
> > Try Harold suggestions from previous mail.
> >
> I did, but this was not not the problem since the screen can do 1280x1024
>
> > >
> > > after startup with -screen 0 1280x1024x16 X now comes up with
> the error
> > > message "Acquire Keyboard Error = 80070005 (DIERR_OTHERAPPHASPRIO).
>
> this seems to be cause by tweakui x-mouse
>
> > > After clicking the message away sometimes the XServer can now lock (It
> > > seems, that if after clicking the message away the focus returns
> > > to another
> > > window, the XServer cant't lock again, and after some seconds, it
> > > is stable).
> if the server has to change displaymodes, it can lock the screen. But
> if not I can see the x-pointer and the windows pointer at the same time
> and the start has failed.
> > > So I have to try often to get a running X, (but then it works great)
> > >
> some keys won't work properly (even with xmodmap). It's (on my german
> keyboard) '<>|' and most important Alt_R. xev reports the keypress
> of Control_L and Alt_L . How can I compose these keys.
> XWin seems only manages switches by Alt-Tab correcly. Pressing for example
> the windows keys puts X into background, but XWin still draws on
> the screen.
> When switching back, X crashes with "DDSurfaceLock :
> IDirectDrawSurface_Restore returned an error"
>
> Ok thats for now
> .
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