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@@ -27,18 +27,27 @@ level margin: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .\" new: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .in \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]u .. -.TH "MARSOND" 8 "2025-05-12" "0.3.0" "Urchlay's Stuff" +.TH "MARSOND" 8 "2026-01-05" "0.4.0" "Urchlay's Stuff" .SH NAME marsond \- Fix Enter key timing on Marson/USBLink/MT606-1 PS/2-USB adaptors .SH SYNOPSIS .sp -marsond [\fB\-d\fP \fIdelay\-ms*\fP] [\fB\-f\fP] [\fB\-k\fP \fIkeyboard\-device\fP] [\fB\-p\fP \fIpause_ms\fP [\fB\-v\fP] | [\fB\-\-help\fP] | [\fB\-\-version\fP] | [\fB\-V\fP] +marsond [\fB\-d\fP \fIdelay\-ms\fP] [\fB\-f\fP] [\fB\-k\fP \fIkeyboard\-device\fP] [\fB\-p\fP \fIpause_ms\fP [\fB\-v\fP] | [\fB\-\-help\fP] | [\fB\-\-version\fP] | [\fB\-V\fP] .SH DESCRIPTION .sp -\fBmarsond\fP fixes an issue with a particular model of PS/2 => USB -keyboard adaptor. The symptom: in games and emulators, the Enter key -only works sometimes. This is caused by the firmware in the adaptor -sending the keypress and release events only 8 milliseconds apart. +\fBmarsond\fP fixes two issues with a particular model of PS/2 => USB +keyboard adaptor. The symptoms: +.INDENT 0.0 +.IP \(bu 2 +In games and emulators, the Enter key only works sometimes. This is +caused by the firmware in the adaptor sending the keypress and release +events only 8 milliseconds apart. +.IP \(bu 2 +In normal use, pressing and releasing the right Shift key and Enter +key simultaneously causes the shift key to get "stuck" and act like +it\(aqs still being held down. +.UNINDENT +.sp See the \fBNOTES\fP section for full details. .sp For normal use, \fBmarsond\fP will be started by a \fBudev\fP(7) rule @@ -140,12 +149,18 @@ you won\(aqt have to set this. .SH NOTES .SS Hardware .sp -The problem happens with any SDL application (SDL1 or SDL2), as well -as other graphics libraries. It happens regardless of what PS/2 -keyboard you have plugged in, what computer you have the adaptor -plugged into, or what OS that computer is running. +The Enter key dropped keystroke problem happens with any SDL +application (SDL1 or SDL2), as well as other graphics libraries. It +happens regardless of what PS/2 keyboard you have plugged in, what +computer you have the adaptor plugged into, or what OS that computer +is running. +.sp +The problem where Shift/Enter causes the Shift key to act "stuck" +happens in any application. It\(aqs particularly annoying because I\(aqm an +inaccurate typist, and I hit Shift+Enter about 5% of the time when I\(aqm +just trying to press Enter. .sp -The specific hardware that has the Enter key problem for me is USB +The specific hardware that has the problems for me is USB vendor ID 04b4, product ID 0101, "Marson Keyboard and Mouse Link Ver:ps2120L". It has a label on the front that says "USBLink", and on the back, the model number is "MT606\-1". It looks like: @@ -198,6 +213,11 @@ the real keyboard to the virtual one. When it sees the key release event for the Enter key, it simply pauses for a few milliseconds before delivering it. .sp +It also keeps track of whether the last keypress was the right Shift +key, and when it sees an Enter keypress while right Shift is held +down, it sends a right Shift key release event before the Enter press +event. +.sp This should work with everything that uses the keyboard. It definitely does, with SDL 1 and 2 running under X (and SDL 1 on the console, too). It should also work with Wayland, though I don\(aqt use Wayland, @@ -231,7 +251,7 @@ device called "marson virtual keyboard", listed as a keyboard. Only one MT\-606\-1 device is supported, out of the box. This shouldn\(aqt really be a problem (do you really need 2 keyboards?) but it\(aqs worth mentioning. If you really do own two of these adaptors and want to use -them on the same PC, you could add a second udev rule (with \-k option +them on the same PC, you could add a second udev rule (with \fB\-k\fP option for the daemon). .sp This isn\(aqt really a \fBmarsond\fP problem per se, but when Xorg detects |