[Pkg-mc-devel] MC eats my keyboard :-(

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 05:33:48AM +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> That's weird... 
> If your keyboard is connected through USB, does reconnecting fixes the issue?

It is no USB keyboard rather such an very old fashioned round PC
connectors (I saved a stack of these very robust ones from Compaq ;-))
and reconnecting does not help - as I said I even exchanged the
keyboard.
 
> I'm with you, statistically we could suspect MC but perhaps X involved even 
> more to your case (gdm3/X restart helps because X re-initialise keyboard).
> 
> Could it be a problem with terminal application, whatever you're using?

I observed a similar occurance on my Laptop last weekend and I have seen
a short Message from Xfce "verzögerte Tasten"  (something like "slowed
down keys") after pressing the Shift key for a while.  Sounds like the
most stupif misfeature they invented an when beeing at the Debian
Science workshop somebody else remembered vaguely such a thing under
Gnome.  This might fit because when marking some text in MC you simply
press <Shift> for some time.  I need to do furter investigation and how
I can get rid of this totally unwanted misfeature.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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