[MPlayer-users] incorrect reaction on the keys

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 03:39:16AM -0800, mlg 3 wrote:
> I run mplayer from the command line.
> When I switch mplayer into full-screen mode, press pause (space), and go one desktop left,
> mplayer starts and does not react on the keys anymore.
> On the console, it says:
> No bind found for key 'CTRL-SPACE'.
> If I press Ctrl, it begins to react to the keys again.
> So it means it does not detect the release of the Ctrl key.

That is because X11 never sends a release event to MPlayer in
that case.
But I implemented a workaround to detect this, it fixed the issue
at least for me.