On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 18:30:24 +0100, "R.Wieser" 
declaimed the following:

>Dennis,
>
>> It's also quite likely specific to the manager in use...
>
>Besides that, yes.
>
>By the way, my
>[quote]
>One possible method would be to start the script with a delay and in that
>time check for a (repeated) keydown event.
>[/quote]
>idea doesn't pan out: no repeated keydown events. :-\   (or at least, they
>do not show up using "bind")
>
 Probably not helpful... Especially for the modifier keys (as a test, I
just held down the  key and only got one toggling of the menu bar
shortcuts -- not a toggle, delay, toggle, toggle, toggle... {Win10, but I
suspect most OS's handle the modifier keys the same way -- they may
generate an event once, but after that they are "state information"
retrieved using a different method})
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48142010/how-to-detect-if-a-key-is-being-he
ld-down-in-tkinter


 From Tkinter source
"""
    def bind(self, sequence=None, func=None, add=None):
        """Bind to this widget at event SEQUENCE a call to function FUNC.

        SEQUENCE is a string of concatenated event
        patterns. An event pattern is of the form
         where MODIFIER is one
        of Control, Mod2, M2, Shift, Mod3, M3, Lock, Mod4, M4,
        Button1, B1, Mod5, M5 Button2, B2, Meta, M, Button3,
        B3, Alt, Button4, B4, Double, Button5, B5 Triple,
        Mod1, M1. TYPE is one of Activate, Enter, Map,
        ButtonPress, Button, Expose, Motion, ButtonRelease
        FocusIn, MouseWheel, Circulate, FocusOut, Property,
        Colormap, Gravity Reparent, Configure, KeyPress, Key,
        Unmap, Deactivate, KeyRelease Visibility, Destroy,
        Leave and DETAIL is the button number for ButtonPress,
        ButtonRelease and DETAIL is the Keysym for KeyPress and
        KeyRelease. Examples are
         for pressing Control and mouse button 1 or
         for pressing A and the Alt key (KeyPress can be omitted).
        An event pattern can also be a virtual event of the form
        > where AString can be arbitrary. This
        event can be generated by event_generate.
        If events are concatenated they must appear shortly
        after each other.
"""
Note the list of those considered MODIFIER and not DETAIL.


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