On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:00:16AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 > Severity: normal > > the triggering problem is that when the xserver switches away, it seems > to keep its key states. > that becomes a problem, if the command that causes the switch away is > started from an xterm, as then the enter key stays pressed. that's "half
What command are you using to switch away? I would use alt-f2 for instance (which doesn't require an enter key). > as bad" if it is a background command, as then one is "only" flooded > with prompts. however, when the command blocks, the xterm stops > processing events. it shows a black screen, the cpu usage is zero I've seen a few black screens in the past few months, but they're correlated with running web browsers (opera for instance). Sounds mostly like an X server problem. > and strace indicates that select() times out once per second. The select-timeout is (someone reminded me) from the sessionMgt resource. It might be related, but not necessarily. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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