Bug#661295: libx11-6 based applications are confused by new xkb settings (possible crash in XkbTranslateKeyCode)
Control: found -1 327-2
On 2015-11-15 15:11:45 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2012-02-26 02:54:45 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > When changing the xkb settings with:
Actually, not "changing", but "restoring" (so that the settings are
the same as when the application was started).
> > xkbcomp -w0 -I$HOME/.xkb -R$HOME/.xkb keymap/custom $DISPLAY
> >
> > not all these settings are taken into account by some running
> > X applications (or worse, see below). New X applications (i.e.
> > those started after running the above command) are not affected.
> >
> > At least the following ones are affected, from a test I've just done:
> > fvwm, xterm, rxvt-unicode, mlterm, and xev. Since all of them directly
> > depend on libx11-6, I suppose the bug is there (another reason given
> > below). More precisely:
> > * With fvwm, Ctrl-Meta-arrows have no effect.
>
> The problem no longer occurs with fvwm, so that this does not seem to
> be a libx11-6 issue (or it has been fixed).
This now occurs again with fvwm. So, perhaps the problem is
related to application code too.
> > * With the terminals, Alt-arrows have the same effect as without Alt,
> > contrary to my settings. A running gnome-terminal is not affected,
> > i.e. after running the xkbcomp command (it is needed), everything
> > is fine with it.
>
> xterm is still affected, thus I'm reassigning the bug to it.
and still affected with 327-2.
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