Re: Sawfish or Xorg input bug

[ritz <khadgaray gmail com>]

Hello

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 20:58 +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> I can reliably "lock" Sawfish using the "cycle windows" keybind,
> simply keeping the keys pressed until the key repeat starts. As a
> result, the two or more visible windows keep switching focus. If i
> kill Sawfish and start another WM (tried with FVWM and Metacity) the
> key are still repeating, i.e. the windows keep switching focus in the
> different WM (using Alt-tab as keybind).
> 
> I suspect it's similar to a bug reported in Debian (
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462441 ) against Xorg
> input, but i can only expose it with Sawfish. I can't reproduce it
> using different WMs, or at least not switching windows as i can do
> with Sawfish.
Good to know, i am not alone.

> 
> Before reopening the bug above, is there anyone that can replicate it?
> The Xorg version installed should be 1.4.1 (a git dump of last 31
> january), the installed Debian packages are:
> 
> ii  xserver-xorg                       1:7.3+10                   the
> X.Org X server
> ii  xserver-xorg-core                  2:1.4.1~git20080131-1      Xorg
> X server - core server
> ii  xserver-xorg-core-dbg              2:1.4.1~git20080131-1      Xorg
> - the X.Org X server (debugging symbols
> ii  xserver-xorg-input-kbd             1:1.2.2-3
> X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver
> ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse           1:1.2.3-2
> X.Org X server -- mouse input driver
> ii  xserver-xorg-video-ati             1:6.8.0-1
> X.Org X server -- ATI display driver
> ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev           1:0.3.1-4
> X.Org X server -- fbdev display driver

I am hitting the same bug, but wiith "Ctrl" key :(
On rawhide. 

xorg-x11-server-common-1.4.99.1-0.26.20080227.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.1-0.26.20080227.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.10-1.20080221git5db7920.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.2.3-4.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-1.2.0-2.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.2.2-4.fc9.i386



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