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Re: reassigning X server keybounce to kernel per XFree86 upstream



On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:52:29AM -0700, Devin Carraway wrote:
> 
> While I've seen this problem in both X and the console, as yet in X it's
> always been interruptible by pressing a new key.  At the console it's
> never been interruptible except by going back to X, but note that the
> console incidents always occur immediately after switching there from X.

I can't see how the kernel could repeat the key without it being
interrupted by new key presses.  I suspect that X may be involved
in this.  To determine whether this is the case, all you need to do
is strace X and then do the switch to see if my suspicion is correct.
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