Henrik, Ah, I did briefly search the list archive, but hadn't come across your earlier post, sorry.
I can confirm the conditions you outlined back then (ie. it's L-ALT+TAB, and only that, that causes the problem, that on return to rterm I can use ctrl-C to interrupt a running R call but then no further keyboard input). Rather than remapping the key (just being lazy) I've found another workaround -- a couple of taps on the left-ALT key whilst focus is on the Rterm window seems to revive Rterm for me. Thanks for the left-ALT tip. I hadn't noticed that the problem was specific to this means of switching windows. Cheers, CB. 2009/2/11 Crispin Bennett <cris...@cb-ss.net> > Henrik, > > Ah, I did briefly search the list archive, but hadn't come across your > earlier post, sorry. > > I can confirm the conditions you outlined back then (ie. it's L-ALT+TAB, > and only that, that causes the problem, that on return to rterm I can use > ctrl-C to interrupt a running R call but then no further keyboard input). > > Rather than remapping the key (just being lazy) I've found another > workaround -- a couple of taps on the left-ALT key whilst focus is on the > Rterm window seems to revive Rterm for me. > > Thanks for the left-ALT tip. I hadn't noticed that the problem was specific > to this means of switching windows. > > Cheers, > > CB. > > 2009/2/11 Henrik Bengtsson <h...@stat.berkeley.edu> > > Hi, >> >> this sounds awfully similar to what I reported in r-help thread '[R] >> Windows Vista, Rterm & LeftAlt + Tab issue' on Aug 21, 2008, cf. >> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-August/171548.html >> >> At least we are not alone ;) ...and I though it was an issue with >> Windows Vista only, because I didn't notice any problem with Windows >> XP Pro I had before. It might have been that I only had SP 2 (I >> think), so it may be related to post-SP 2 updates that are also >> included in Vista. >> >> In Windows, you can shift between applications using either >> LeftAlt+TAB or RightAlt+TAB, but I discovered that the freezing >> problem only occurred with LeftAlt+TAB, which is the combination I use >> most frequently. I ended up remapping the physical left-most Alt key >> (on a US keyboard) to signal Right Alt (and vice versa for the >> right-most Alt key). I used KeyTweak >> [http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/] do this. Since then I've >> forgot about the issue, so I guess it works to circumvent the problem. >> >> Let us know if this solves your problem >> >> Henrik >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:54 AM, CB <cb.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I've been trying to use Rterm.exe, mainly because of Rgui.exe's lack of >> > support for incremental history searching. But on my system (Win XP, >> SP3), >> > it (rterm from R-2.8.1) frequently just stops responding to keyboard >> input. >> > This happens often (enough to make it unusable), and generally after a >> > switch to another window. It doesn't seem to hang exactly, as if I leave >> it >> > a while (minutes) it sometimes starts responding again. It isn't using >> any >> > CPU to speak of whilst being mute. >> > >> > Anyone else know of this? >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> > PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
