MOL 9.65 and keyboard issue

[christophe barbe]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 12:24:59PM +0200, Christian Boily wrote:
> 
> 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.

What is OS X 1.5 ?

> 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). luckily
> the buttons in the menu bar are working: when i log out the keyboard is 
> fine once more, ie i can now log in again and OS X runs fine. that's why i 
> suspect some kind
> of mapping is lost when i put OS X in background/foreground mode.  any 
> idea what i am doing wrong?

I am not sure if your description match what I have but for me the
problem is with the CTRL key. I press it when switching fron macos to
X and macos miss the release event of it. So when I come back to macos,
it still consider the CTRL key pressed. I can no more type in a shell
and when I click on an icon I get the contextual menu. The fix is to
simply press and release the CTRL key again and everything get back to
normal.

Christophe
 
> this minor bug aside, i found that running mol 9.65 is a very pleasant 
> experience. i can't wait to upgrade to jaguar ..
> 
> best wishes, christian b.
> 
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