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- From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) (OS/2)
- Subject: Re: Alt-Home not working
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.102654.29167@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
- References: <7622.244.uupcb@nitelog.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:26:54 GMT
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- In article <7622.244.uupcb@nitelog.com> craig.chester@nitelog.com (Craig Chester) writes:
- >Does anyone else have a problem with Alt-Home not working as
- >advertised, to switch a view between window and full screen modes?
- >
- >Using the pull-down menu to do the switch works, but is a nuisance.
- >
- >It appears that the Alt-Home is just being passed on to the active
- >program in the window like any other key (though not until the Alt
- >key is released--odd).
- >
- >(This seems similar to, but different from, the known CSD problem
- >with the "stuck" Alt key; toggling Alt rapidly does not help, and
- >the problem occurs in windowed mode too, before the window loses
- >focus by going to full-screen.)
- >
- >Could it be that OS/2 isn't recognizing my 84-key keyboard layout?
- >(Horrors!) I am running the ServicePak, with its standard SVGA
- >driver at 1024x768 on a Tseng 4000 board.
- >
- >Any thoughts would be appreciated.
-
- This Alt-Home buglet is the only real bug I have found with the SP. I have
- included text from the SP bug report. Reading it may help you understand
- how to avoid it somewhat. Let me shut up now so you can read it. :)
-
- :
- :<<< OS/2 SERVICE PACK XR06055 - KNOWN PROBLEMS AND FIXES >>>
- :Subject : OS/2 SERVICE PACK XR06055 - KNOWN PROBLEMS AND FIXES
- :OS/2 SERVICE PACK XR06055 - KNOWN PROBLEMS AND FIXES
- :
- :The following is a list of the known problems that can be introduced
- :by installing the OS/2 2.0 Service Pack XR06055. Where possible, a "work
- :around" solution is given for the problem. Most, but not all of these are
- :problems with video adapters and the new video drivers.
- :
- [... video bug reports removed to save bandwidth ...]
- :
- :9. The ALT+HOME key will not work in a DOS Full Screen session once it has
- : lost focus. A DOS Full Screen session will lose focus when the user
- : switches to the Desktop and selects any object there with the mouse.
- : When the user switches back to the DOS Full Screen session, the focus
- : is lost.
- :
- : The work around for this problem is to switch to the Desktop, select
- : the icon for the DOS Full Screen session that lost focus, pop up the
- : context menu for the session with the right mouse button, and choose
- : "Windowed". This will restore the focus as well as make the DOS window
- : appear. The ALT+HOME hot key will now function until the session is made
- : full screen again and it loses focus again.
- :
- [ ... sticky Alt-key bug report removed ...]
- :
-
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