[R] Rterm.exe stops responding to keyboard input

Henrik Bengtsson
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:13:07 -0000

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.lists at 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?
>
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