From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 13 13:42:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D55137B401 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:42:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from web10505.mail.yahoo.com (web10505.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C63343FB1 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:42:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from b_oshea@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030313214227.35885.qmail@web10505.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [156.153.254.42] by web10505.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:42:27 PST Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:42:27 -0800 (PST) From: Brian O'Shea Subject: Spurrious backquote character To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I am running FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE with XFree86 4.2.1 and have noticed a strange effect. Every so often a spurrious backquote "`" character is generated when I am typing. It only seems to happen when I am running X, although I have not tested this sufficiently since I do not type on the console very often. It usually happens when I start to type after waiting for a few seconds, although it will sometimes occur w`hile I am typing like this. (that example was artificially produced for demonstration only.) I only ever see one spurrious backquote at a time (i.e. never two or more ``like this). Has anyone else seen anything like this? I don't know how to characterize it since it seems to happen randomly. Otherwise the system is quite usable and it rarely interferes with my work (it is most annoying when typing at the shell prompt, as you might imagine, or editing a file with vi). Cheers, -brian $ uname -a FreeBSD svarga 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003 root@hollin.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message