To begin, this is slightly off-topic, since my base *nix I am having issues with is Cygwin, not Linux. I am running X-Windows in Cygwin upon which I am running WindowMaker. It seems to have a slightly bizarre problem in that it disregards my capital "A" when I try to type it in any window. I went through my key bindings, and nothing seems to be bound to the key. Other window managers work fine, including the MS-Windows that it is running on. Someone had suggested to run xev (I don't have xbindkeys) to find out what X is doing with my keypress. Here is what appears to be the output from a "A" key event (quotes excluded): ----------8<-----------------8<------------------8<---------------------- KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001, root 0x260, subw 0x1400002, time 6980609, (35,36), root:(1181,469), state 0x10, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False FocusOut event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001, mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor FocusIn event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001, mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor KeymapNotify event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x0, keys: 96 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KeyRelease event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001, root 0x260, subw 0x1400002, time 6983906, (35,36), root:(1181,469), state 0x11, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False ----------8<-----------------8<------------------8<---------------------- Hopefully, someone can make more sense of this than me. Anything appear strange above? Paul King ------- End of forwarded message -------