victoria@hera.Sbi.Com (Victoria S. Drozdov) (04/04/91)
We have been running into a strange problem.
The environment is Sparc1+/Sparc2, SunOS4.1/4.1.1,
Openwindows xnews server, twm/vtwm.
Once in a while, it seems like the keyboard would
go into a strange state - can't type into the xterm
and other applications, strange characters would appear.
Also, all the mouse bindings would be lost - I would
just get a beep when I try to use the mouse buttons.
Strangely enough, pressing the diamond/meta key to the
right of the space bar would fix the problem!
We analyzed the problem farther. It seems like for some
reason the Meta key goes into a shift/on state. I noticed
the problem when using xev to see what's going on.
Has anyone out there run into a similar problem?
I am trying to understand whether it is the window manager
or the X server that is causing the state of the Meta key
(which is supposed to be a stateless key) to change. Does
anyone know if the window manager can cause this problem?
Or is it only the X server that can control the state
of the meta key?
I would appreciate any pointers here. At this time, I am
not sure how to figure out what's causing this strange
state.
Thanks to all in advance.
-Victoria
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