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hiro -
I meant my "fix" is to simply bang on the ctrl key. everyone may not
realize to do that

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 3:47 AM <kvik@a-b.xyz> wrote:
>
> > I imagine other people have noticed this.  sometimes when I
> > switch virtual workspaces on xfce4, drawterm's input gets
> > stuck somehow and when I type, control characters come out.
>
> Drawterm registers the keydown event, this trickles down to
> kbdfs, rio, and whatever, modifying their input states;
> then, drawterm's input focus is taken away by external
> forces, you release the key but drawterm doesn't ever get
> that keyup event, therefore everything continues to believe
> you are holding down that Ctrl key for life.
>
> I remember trying to work this out at some point, with the
> idea of tracking the keys being pressed and explicitly
> releasing them on focuslost event, or something like that.
>
> You can't do it wholesale or naively either, because for
> example Alt triggers the kbdfs compose mode that must be
> exited by pressing Alt again.



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