Bug#457440: xserver-xorg-core: ctrl-alt keyboard combinations ceased working after prompts by ratpoison

[Sebastian Bremicker <sebrem@sebrem.de>]

Hi,

sorry, the mail before was sent prematurely (before I had coffee).

> > prompts. After that (reproducible here) every key combination that includes
> > ctrl-alt, like ctrl-alt-F1 or ctl-alt-backspace ceases to work.
> Can you start xkbwatch and see what happens when you press the "bad"
> keys in ratpoisons? Does it light anything in xkbwatch?
> Does the ctrl-alt behavior change in xkbwatch after ratpoisons?

There is nothing obvious to discover:

xkbwatch idle status:
-------- -------- ---X---- ---X---- --X-----
pressing ctrl-alt:
----XX-- -------- ---X---- ---XXX-- ---XXX--
but no additional keys make a difference, I even watched return to tty7
after going to tty8:
----XX-- -------- ---X---- ---XXX-- ---XXX--
after c-T colon help return nothing changes in idle status:
-------- -------- ---X---- ---X---- ---X----
ctrl-alt alone looks no different:
----XX-- -------- ---X---- ---XXX-- ---XXX--
no difference again:
----XX-- -------- ---X---- ---XXX-- ---XXX--

Isn't there a program with textual output of keyboard events?

Regards and have nice holiday days

Sebastian