geektanic
July 17th, 2009, 07:53 PM
I've got a shell script that I use to start WoW from so that it can disable keyboard repeating while it's running but enable it after WoW closes.
It has never been an issue in the past however as I commonly do I highlighted the icon with a keyboard shortcut and pressed the enter key to launch the application.
Immediately after the script began repeatedly executing faster than I could control it. The first time I was caught completely off guard and had to REISUB the OS as my PC completely locked up. There were easily over 100 instances running and you could see more being generated by the second.
The second time I confirmed the problem so I was able to kill the X Session and restart it before it completely crashed the PC. However I am curious if anyone else has ever run into anything similar. Or if they know what causes it as I'm a high fan of using the keyboard for 90% of my tasks.
The desktop item is a launcher created shortcut to my .sh file
The .sh script is as follows:
#!/bin/bash
# WoW launch
xset r off
wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe" -opengl
xset r on
Creating a symbolic link to the shell script and repeating these steps does not cause the same effect, nor does any other launcher shortcut that I create. No other shell script/launcher combination does this either.:confused:
It has never been an issue in the past however as I commonly do I highlighted the icon with a keyboard shortcut and pressed the enter key to launch the application.
Immediately after the script began repeatedly executing faster than I could control it. The first time I was caught completely off guard and had to REISUB the OS as my PC completely locked up. There were easily over 100 instances running and you could see more being generated by the second.
The second time I confirmed the problem so I was able to kill the X Session and restart it before it completely crashed the PC. However I am curious if anyone else has ever run into anything similar. Or if they know what causes it as I'm a high fan of using the keyboard for 90% of my tasks.
The desktop item is a launcher created shortcut to my .sh file
The .sh script is as follows:
#!/bin/bash
# WoW launch
xset r off
wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe" -opengl
xset r on
Creating a symbolic link to the shell script and repeating these steps does not cause the same effect, nor does any other launcher shortcut that I create. No other shell script/launcher combination does this either.:confused: