[3ddesktop-dev] Re: Odd KDE keybinding bugs

Lowering the keyboard repeat threshold seemed to do the trick!  Thanks!

Carl Waldbieser

On Tuesday 01 February 2005 08:41 pm, Jeff Buck wrote:
> 3ddesk failed to grab keyboard focus. You should be able to select your
> desktop using your left and right mouse buttons, and then center click
> to zoom in and deactivate 3ddesk.
>
> I've had issues with this off and on through various versions of 3ddesk.
> It seems to be affected by the speed of the machine I'm using usually. A
> faster machine usually gives me more problems with 3ddesk grabbing
> focus... but it's usually pretty intermittent.
>
> I also have the problem more if I hit the activation key combo more than
> once, very quickly. I'm thinking that the active application or the
> window manager grabs and holds focus while there is input, causing
> 3ddesk to be denied it's request for focus. A faster machine probably
> trips it easier because 3ddesk is trying to grab focus before the key up
> event even happens from the activation key sequence. I always use a two
> key combo to activate 3ddesk (ctrl-tab), which might make the problem
> worse.. Maybe both keys need to be released before 3ddesk tries the
> grab.
>
> I'm thinking that maybe you have a very fast key-repeat setting? Or
> repeat delay? Maybe that would explain why you get double desktop
> switches as well? I would try turning down your key repeat settings, and
> hopefully that will help both of your problems.
>
> Brad, do you know if it's possible for you to test weather or not 3ddesk
> successfully got focus, and if it didn't, maybe periodically try to grab
> focus again? Or maybe not even test, but just try to grab focus every
> second or so?
>
> -Jeff
>
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 16:15, Carl Waldbieser wrote:
> > I am experiencing some odd behavior with respect to the interation
> > between KDE's KHotKeys and 3ddesktop.  When I run the program (3ddesk)
> > from the command line, everything works as I would expect.  It I create a
> > shortcut with KHotKeys to execute "3ddesk", the screen zooms out to the
> > carousel view, but no keyboard input seems to work.  After a couple
> > seconds, the random feature starts spinning the carousel, so I know the
> > program is not hung-- it just isn't receiving input.
> >
> > If I use the commands "3ddesk --gotoleft" and "3ddesk --gotoright" as
> > hotkeys, things are a little better, but still buggy.  The desktop will
> > zoom out and move left or right, but it will then immediately repeat the
> > process (so I can move 2 desktops left or right, but not just one).
> >
> > Any ideas why this might be happening?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Carl Waldbieser

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