On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Ed Greenberg wrote: > --On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:56 PM +0200 Alexander Gottwald > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > Ed Greenberg wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > That's odd. What kind of keyboard do you have? Maybe there are > > programs running which grab some of the keys and translate them to a > > different kind of messages. > > This is a pretty plain vanilla Win XP Prof SP2 installation. > > Can somebody on XP SP2 with a US keyboard please run xev and see if > shift and control keys generate scancodes? They do here: ----------------------------------- Cutting here may damage your screen ---- KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29187866, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x0, keycode 49 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29188050, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x1, keycode 49 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29188767, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x0, keycode 61 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29188952, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x1, keycode 61 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29190504, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x0, keycode 36 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29190800, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x4, keycode 36 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29191359, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x0, keycode 94 (keysym 0xffe4, Control_R), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29191592, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x4, keycode 94 (keysym 0xffe4, Control_R), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29194456, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x0, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29194671, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x8, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: ----------------------------------- Cutting here may damage your screen ---- Left Alt and Fn don't generate any events (Windows intercepts both). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
