xterm cursor jumping to start of line

Alexander Gottwald Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Thu Apr 7 20:05:00 GMT 2005


Brian Keen wrote:

> I've seen 3 or 4 postings about this problem but as yet have not seen
> anyone offer a solution.
> I am experiencing the same fault.
> I am using  Microsoft wireless keyboard. I wonder if this is the common factor?
> I have not experienced this problem when running other applications.
> It does not happen when I am using the cygwin bash shell console
> window - only when I use an xterm.
> I may have to try a non-wireless keyboard to see if it makes a difference.

I can't find any answer to the problem in the archives but I remember vaguely
it was a driver problem with the wireless keyboard. It reported some keypresses
which Xwin seems to interpret and the windows driver silently discards.

But unfortunatly I have not more information on this.

bye
        ago
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