Re: annoying control-alt-backspace triggering
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 17:10 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>
> I'm facing frequently quite an annoying problem with the X server (being
> from sarge or sid). If I delete a whole line of text with backspace,
> keeping the key pressed for a second or two, and immediately after that,
> I press control-alt-right to switch workspaces, without having the
> control-alt-backspace keys pressed together at any moment, that sequence
> is triggered anyway, and the X server is killed.
>
> This behaviour is really annoying. Is this a bug?
Definitely, the question is where. My guess would be you're suffering
from the 'key up events are lost sometimes' bug, which from the evidence
we've gathered so far seems to be somewhere in the kernel input layer.
It seems to affect powerpc users mostly (are you still using such a
machine), but I think I've seen reports about it on x86 as well.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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