reassign 258044 xlibs retitle 258044 xlibs: XGetModifierMapping() doesn't work well with Ivan Pascal's workaround for multi-layout maps that use different modifier keysyms tag 258044 + upstream help thanks On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:30:35PM +0300, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 > Severity: important > > Since the latest upgrade (AFAIK) from some other 4.3 release of XFree86, > XGetModifierMapping or simply typing 'xmodmap' has reported > > mod1 Alt_L (0x7d), Meta_L (0x7e) > > but this is _wrong_. The keycode for Alt_L is 0x40. xmodmap also reports two > mappings > > keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L > keycode 125 = Alt_L > > and only XGetModifierMapping uses the incorrect one, causing at least some > programs to not ignore alt presses/releases as they should. > > Executing > > remove mod1 = Alt_L > keycode 125 = > add mod1 = Alt_L > > fixes the problem, but there must be something wrong in the default Finnish > keymap (other than the ISO_Level3_Shift brain-damage that makes creating > custom modmaps very difficult as not even a full backup modmap from 4.2 > works). There are also other possibly spurious modifiers in the 120 range > that don't exist in the backup modmap. Please see the following mailing list message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/07/msg00153.html Anything you can do to help would be appreciated. -- G. Branden Robinson | I must despise the world which does Debian GNU/Linux | not know that music is a higher branden@debian.org | revelation than all wisdom and http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | philosophy. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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