Bug#431449: xmodmap needs to reduce inconvenience of 'please release the following keys' error
Package: xbase-clients
Version: 1:7.2.ds2-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/xmodmap
Via my window manager, I have bound a key to switch my keymap. It
causes a script to be run which calls 'xmodmap'. However, I often get
errors such as:
xmodmap: please release the following keys within 4 seconds:
Control_L (keysym 0xffe3, keycode 64)
This is because I often start typing something after switching the
keymap (after all, I only switch the keymap when I want to type), and
for some reason X doesn't like having modifiers depressed when
remapping them. If X could be fixed to not do this, it would be great.
Otherwise, perhaps the timeout in xmodmap could be reduced - currently
the minimum is 2 seconds, but it is doubled each time. I think much
smaller values, and no doubling, would be preferable, since those
delays affect the user directly.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE= (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.1.2-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfs6 2:1.0.0-4 X11 Font Services library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 6.5.2-5 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libice6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 authorisation library
ii libxaw7 1:1.0.3-3 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-2 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.4-1 X11 keyboard file manipulation lib
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxmuu1 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.1-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxss1 1:1.1.2-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxtrap6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 event trapping extension libra
ii libxtst6 1:1.0.1-5 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii libxv1 1:1.0.3-1 X11 Video extension library
ii libxxf86dga1 2:1.0.1-2 X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii x11-common 1:7.2-3 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-15 compression library - runtime
xbase-clients recommends no packages.
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