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- >>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony J Stuckey <stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:
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- Anthony> I have seen several times when Executor ignores the
- Anthony> keyboard. The keys show up in the Xterm that I started
- Anthony> executor from. I have no idea why this occurs. I have
- Anthony> not seen somethng as moribund as this. (my mouse has
- Anthony> always worked.) This is a problem which has persisted
- Anthony> across several versions of executor and the Linux kernel
- Anthony> -- I now use 1.99n and 1.2.8, and it showed up last
- Anthony> night. Is this possibly window-manager related?
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- I think these are two different problems. If new data on the X server
- socket doesn't generate a SIGIO, E/L 1.99m won't see any X events at
- all. This behavior is consistent with what Per described. We should
- change Executor so it both polls for X events and also notices them
- asynchronously. The asynchronous support is needed to make some games
- work, e.g. Diamonds. If we make this change, a few games won't work
- properly on machines running older Linux kernels (like back in the E/L
- 1.99k days), but most stuff will work fine.
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