Re: [RP] Second keypress falls through

[shawn]

Jonathan Walther <address@hidden> writes:

> Is this race condition innate to X itself?

No. The sequence of events are as such:

1. user presses C-t

2. ratpoison recieves it and switches windows to an input window where
   the second keystroke will be read

3. user presses f

4. ratpoison displays the current frame

when #2 happens before #3 is when things mess up. The race condition
is between ratpoison switching windows and the user hitting the second
keystroke.

> On 20 Oct 2001, shawn wrote:
> > Jesper Holmberg <address@hidden> writes:
> > Yes, this a product of how rp does the prefix maps. I haven't been
> > able to think of a way to eliminate this problem. There's always a
> > race condition...
> >
> > It hasn't been a show stopper, so I haven't dedicated too much effort
> > to eliminating it...I just wait for the rat cursor to change shape and
> > then issue my command. That sucks, though.