[ANNOUNCE] XWin Keyboard test 5

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

Check the ~/.Xresources file on your Linux box

You can copy it to $HOME directory under cygwin 

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [ mailto:cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com ]
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 4:54 PM
> To: cygx
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] XWin Keyboard test 5
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:24:01PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:59:43PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The kbd-test-5 release of the keyboard test is available at 
> > > http://www.gotti.org or [1]
> > > 
> > > It is based on Harolds test-15 release. 
> > > 
> > > I fixed the Alt_R handling (hope so).
> > > It is not fully tested what happens if you press 
> Control_L and Alt_R
> > > simultaniously.
> > > The debug messages are again switched on, but i provide a 
> version without
> > > them.
> > > 
> > > I have not tested it on WinNT.
> > 
> > Works fine. Thank you!
> 
> I have found an interesting difference when using xterm. For
> example the key "cursor left" produces the triple
> 
> 	ESC [ D
> 
> in xterm regardless of the mode (normal, shift, control, alt).
> 
> When using an xterm in a Linux X server or under a VNC server,
> the xterm bahaves the same, except when pressing the Alt key.
> In that case it produces the byte sequence
> 
> 	ESC ESC [ D
> 
> which allows convenient key bindings in a shell. Why does it
> not behave that way in XWin?
> 
> Corinna
> 
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