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List:       rdesktop-devel
Subject:    [rdesktop-devel] question about key press and release handling
From:       Paul Winder <Paul.Winder () tadpole ! com>
Date:       2010-10-20 17:53:45
Message-ID: 4CBF2CA9.10106 () tadpole ! com
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Hi,

Has anyone else noticed that within an rdesktop login session changing 
the key autorepeat settings has no effect?

This led me to do some investigation, and I understand X windows and MS 
Windows generate auto-repeats differently. X does key down-up-down-up 
... etc whilst MS does down-down-down-down-up. Which is fair enough.

What I'm trying to understand why in xkeymap_send_keys, when a key is 
pressed a press _and_ release are sent immediately? Why isn't the 
release sent only when the key is released? Is it something to do with 
auto-repeat? Should it detect when it is auto-repeating and send 
repeated downs?

The behaviour seems odd to me, but there maybe a good reason for it. If 
not I will fix it so the auto-repeat behaves as expected.

Thanks
Paul

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