Bug#561803: Xephyr: Arrow keys don't work
Package: xserver-xephyr
Version: 2:1.6.5-1
Severity: important
Among other things, the arrow keys seem to be broken in Xephyr (working
fine in my regular xserver/gdm/awesome session). For instance, if I run
Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 1280x1004
DISPLAY=:1 gnome-terminal
I will get a terminal which mostly works, but the shell does not react
to any arrow keys in the way it normally would (e.g. move cursor
left/right, scroll through command history). Afterwards, I see this in
the terminal where I started Xephyr and gnome-terminal (or rxvt):
(EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
If, instead of a terminal, I start a full-blown gnome-session, pressing
the up arrow will get me an error dialog about being unable to run
gnome-screenshot, so the keypresses do seem to be passed through
somehow, but are mangled along the way.
In case it matters, I am using a normal 101-key US English PS/2
keyboard, and run the following command in the .Xsessionrc for my parent
xserver:
xmodmap -e 'remove lock = Caps_Lock' -e 'keysym Caps_Lock = Super_L'
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