[squeak-dev] Unix keyboard events lose track when multiple keys pressed or keys held down

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Fri Jan 15 04:36:34 UTC 2021



> On 2021-01-14, at 1:09 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> I used xev to check out the X11 events that get generated from the
> keyboard. My test was to do this (quickly)with xev running:
> 
> - depress "x" key
> - depreas "y" key
> - release "y" key
> - release "x" key
> 
[snip]
> Conclusion: All of the necessary keyboard events are generated by the
> X server and we can safely assume that they are being delivered to
> the VM.
> 
> Next debugging step would be to confirm whether or not the "y" release
> event is being delivered to the image.

I see the same behaviour, which is good in the sense of the problem being real and not just my Mac->VNC setup. So it looks like a bug in the vm-display-x11 code somewhere. Well. That will be fun...

tim
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