Re: Shift key sticks down

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From: prb
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1987 01:01

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The stuck shiftkey on a Sun with XV10R4 is because the OS did not inform X
that the shiftkey cam back up.  To fix the problem just hold both shift
keys down at once and the release them.  This will fix the problem because
the X server for the Suns knows that there are only two shift keys, if it
ever sees more than two it assumes the OS did not tell it about one of the
up events and it resets itself back down to 2 shift keys.  I don't know
of anyway to prevent this from happening.

				-Paul R Borman
				 Cray Research, Inc.
				 prb@umn-rei-uc.arpa

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Subject: Re:  Shift key sticks down
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