Switching the X keyboard layout to something that changes keys used
bindings used by cwm(1) and back again breaks those bindings.
cwmrc does not matter, this is reproducible with `cwm -c /dev/null';
it happens on my amd64 machine where I `exec cwm' from ~/.xsession, e.g.
using xenodm(1) and it also happens on a unconfigured default
installation on loongson which starts with fvwm where I switch into cwm
using fvwm's left-click menu "Restart>" -> "exec cwm".
So installing OpenBSD with the "[default]" keyboard layout chosen in the
installer and the following when running X:
# wsconsctl -n keyboard.encoding
us
$ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include
"pc+us+inet(pc105)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)" };
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
};
In cwm, I can press M-slash to "Search for windows" according to the
manual and this just works.
When I switch to a german layout (e.g. to type "รถ" without compose keys)
like this:
$ setxkbmap de
# wsconsctl -n keyboard.encoding
us
I can type them expected (while the wsconsctl switch stays the same) and
M-slash also still works (while the slash is now on a different key);
so far so good and as expected. Other keybindings seem to work as well
(with de mappings), but I have not tested exhaustively.
Switching back to the previous us keymap in X properly changes the
mapping back in all my X clients and according to setxkbmap(1) is it the
same as before switching to de:
$ setxkbmap de
# wsconsctl -n keyboard.encoding
us
$ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include
"pc+us+inet(pc105)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)" };
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
};
But what is no longer working from now is the M-slash keybinding in cwm
to search for windows. Note that the slash is back where is belongs in
the us keymap and typing text is expected, just cwm and this particular
keybinding is messed up.
To get keybindings working with the us keymap again, I need to restart
cwm - either through restarting X/xenodm or by reexecuting cwm from
within cwm itself through its CM-w keybinding.
After reexecution and no further keymap tinkering the M-slash keybinding
works again.
I guess wsconsctl should be used anyway, but using setxkbmap happened
out of muscle memory and so I noticed this bug rather by accident;
that's the first time I've been changing encodings/layouts/keymaps in
years.
Do perhaps wsconsctl and setxkbmap conflict by design?
