MOL 9.65 and keyboard issue

Andreas Schwab mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:12:15 +0200


Christian Boily <cmb@pleiades.u-strasbg.fr> writes:

|> Hello, i have had a strange problem which i saw mentioned elsewhere in 
|> this mailing list but without solution. i'll try my luck -
|> 
|> i installed mol 9.65 on a TiBook running YDL 2.2 ; the launch with options 
|> --osx and --config=v  got it going, it works great with OS X 1.5 in full 
|> screen, lovely stuff.
|> 
|> here's the catch: if i switch back to linux using ctrl - alt - f7 or f8 
|> (to go back and forth)
|> i recover my linux session, as desired, but when i return mol to the 
|> foreground, the
|> keyboard (map) is messed up, so that i can't type anything in a Darwin 
|> shell, plus
|> the dock functions don't respond like they should (they won't run 
|> basically).

Try pressing ctrl and alt again after switching.  OS X can get confused
when it didn't receive the key release events, which can happen during
console switching.

Andreas.

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