x11: Emulate XKB's detectable key auto-repeat

Old-style X11 terminals require that even modern X11 send KeyPress
and KeyRelease pairs when auto-repeating. For this reason modern(-ish)
API like XKB has a way to detect auto-repeat and do a single KeyRelease
at the end of a KeyPress sequence.

The newly added check emulates XKB's detectable auto-repeat by peeking
the next event after a KeyRelease and checking if it's a KeyPress for
the same key and timestamp - and then ignoring the KeyRelease if it
matches.
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Emmanuele Bassi 2009-12-09 18:46:25 +00:00
parent 9242d6b934
commit 86ce92eec1

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@ -627,6 +627,32 @@ event_translate (ClutterBackend *backend,
break;
case KeyRelease:
/* old-style X11 terminals require that even modern X11 send
* KeyPress/KeyRelease pairs when auto-repeating. for this
* reason modern(-ish) API like XKB has a way to detect
* auto-repeat and do a single KeyRelease at the end of a
* KeyPress sequence.
*
* this check emulates XKB's detectable auto-repeat; we peek
* the next event and check if it's a KeyPress for the same key
* and timestamp - and then ignore it if it matches the
* KeyRelease
*/
if (XPending (xevent->xkey.display))
{
XEvent next_event;
XPeekEvent (xevent->xkey.display, &next_event);
if (next_event.type == KeyPress &&
next_event.xkey.keycode == xevent->xkey.keycode &&
next_event.xkey.time == xevent->xkey.time)
{
res = FALSE;
break;
}
}
event->key.type = event->type = CLUTTER_KEY_RELEASE;
translate_key_event (backend, event, xevent);
break;