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From: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Switching VTs on Interactive UNIX
Message-ID: <1170@mwtech.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 91 13:35:33 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.052103.16367@wimsey.bc.ca> <1991Jun18.221620.6574@bronson.uucp>
Reply-To: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Organization: MIKROS Systemware, Darmstadt/W-Germany
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In article <1991Jun18.221620.6574@bronson.uucp> tan@bronson.uucp (Tan Bronson) writes:
[about a program that enables VT-switching with a single keystroke]
>	The bad news is that after this program is run, switching to/from
>    a VT running X can wedge the keyboard, rendering it useless for X.
>    Sometimes switching back and forth can fix the X server, ...

I've always been able to fix the X server when this occured by switching
back and forth when the mouse-cursor is *within* an xterm-window.

Further it seems the wedged keyboard is more likely to occur when
you use the ALT-F-VT-switching and the mouse-cursor is *outside* an
xterm-window (though I've not been able to reproduce it 100%, there
seems something more to be involved).
-- 
Martin Weitzel, email: martin@mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83