Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-22

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Nov 19 16:01:00 GMT 2003


Might be a good idea.

Gaël Gueguen wrote:

> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> 
> 
>>We were previously using two auto-repeat schemes at the same time:
>>
>>1) xkb
>>
>>2) Win32's auto repeat layer
>>
>>Convince me why it is good to have two layers handling auto repeat by 
>>default and I will accede to your request.
> 
> 
> Not sure it will convince anybody, just my point of view.
> I'm using Cygwin/XFree to connect to some HP-UX and AIX boxes, and I 
> can't use xkb because of this CDE/AltGr/whatever problem. (If I use xkb, 
> I don't have access to |, @, etc...)
> So I launch X via "X -kb" and then load my own .xmodmap.
> This was working perfectly, but without Win32 autorepeat nor xkb 
> autorepeat, I have no autorepeat at all :-(
> My suggestion: is it possible to enable Win32 autorepeat only if X 
> is launched with the -kb switch ?
> 
> Thanks for the very good job you all do,
> Gael.



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