6.8.2.0-2: Shift and control keys don't operate
Ed Greenberg
edg@greenberg.org
Sun Jun 19 20:48:00 GMT 2005
Following up my own post. I note while running xev that the shift and
control keys do not cause events. The xev output window indicates all the
other keys, but not those.
</edg>
--On Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:40 AM -0700 Ed Greenberg <edg@greenberg.org>
wrote:
> I am running Cygwin/X ver 6.8.2.0-2 under Windows XP SP2
>
> In xterm, or anything else that takes readline input, neither the shift,
> nor control keys do anything. Echoed output is lower case no matter
> whether the shift key or control key is pressed. No capital letters, and
> no control keys are available. Behavior is the same whether the client is
> local (local xterm) or on another machine (ddd on a linux box -- which is
> my eventual goal). Even when ctrl and shift don't work, capslock works
> fine.
>
> In the regular cygwin shell, ctrl and shift work fine.
>
> I'm running the standard US keyboard (PS2, not USB). I've tried more
> than one keyboard -- both 102/103 key and also 105 key.
>
> Attached are cygcheck.txt and also a copy of the output from startx.
>
> Does anybody have a cure for this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ed Greenberg
> San Jose, CA
>
>
>
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