Re: Shift key auto generated?

[Geert-Jan Van den Bogaerde <gvdbogaerde pandora be>]

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 16:09, Wang Yajun wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> I am using Gnome 2.4 in Debian. Recently, I have suffered from
> a very strange problem in my chinese input method.
> 
> After I start gnome some time, some application( I dont know which)
> will generate left "shift" key every 10 secondes. I have asked the
> author of the chinese input method, he had no idea, and claimed there is no
> such timer in the program. So, maybe it's not the input method's problem.
> Basicly, I dont know how can this problem comes.
> 
> Any body has some idea about this problem? The applications
> I often use are " gaim, mozilla, gnome-terminal".

I believe some media players (xine, mplayer) use this trick to keep the
screensaver from activating when a movie is playing.

Regards,

Geert-Jan