Your message dated Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:18:24 +0200
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and subject line Closing bug: xserver-xephyr: Xephyr and Xnest: AltGr combined
keystrokes do not work while using German keyboard layout
has caused the Debian Bug report #959071,
regarding xserver-xephyr: Xephyr and Xnest: AltGr combined keystrokes do not
work while using German keyboard layout
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Package: xserver-xephyr
Version: 2:1.20.8-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Xephyr :2 -query m2n.lan.dac -screen 1920x1080 &
or
Xnest -query tdz2000.lan.dac -geometry 1600x1050 :2
* What was the outcome of this action?
Everything works fine, exept AltGr combined keystrokes like "\" key on a
German keyboard
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Working AltGr (right Alt key) key on a German keyboard
currently in Debian/testing Xnest and Xephyr report the following error, when
used with a German keyboard layout:
adrian@g6 ~ % Xephyr :2 -query m2n.lan.dac -screen 1920x1080 &
[1] 74607
adrian@g6 ~ % The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86FullScreen
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
In the effect, hitting AltGr + ß does produce no key instead of "\". Any AltGr
combined keystroke is broken and does not work.
I hit this error connecting to an XDM display manager running on NetBSD 9
connected over a local lan network. I tried with two real NetBSD 9 machines on
the local network. AltGr works fine on those NetBSD 9 machines locally with
console login and Xorg login or on my Debian/testing host here with
Enlightenment DR 17.
Please can you have a look at this issue.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Adrian Kiess
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages xserver-xephyr depends on:
ii libaudit1 1:2.8.5-3+b1
ii libbsd0 0.10.0-1
ii libc6 2.30-4
ii libepoxy0 1.5.4-1
ii libgcrypt20 1.8.5-5
ii libgl1 1.3.1-1
ii libpixman-1-0 0.36.0-1
ii libselinux1 3.0-1+b3
ii libsystemd0 245.5-1
ii libudev1 245.5-1
ii libunwind8 1.2.1-9
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.9-2
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.9-2
ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1+b2
ii libxcb-icccm4 0.4.1-1.1
ii libxcb-image0 0.4.0-1+b2
ii libxcb-keysyms1 0.4.0-1+b2
ii libxcb-randr0 1.14-2
ii libxcb-render-util0 0.3.9-1+b1
ii libxcb-render0 1.14-2
ii libxcb-shape0 1.14-2
ii libxcb-shm0 1.14-2
ii libxcb-util0 0.3.8-3+b2
ii libxcb-xkb1 1.14-2
ii libxcb-xv0 1.14-2
ii libxcb1 1.14-2
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.2-3
ii libxfont2 1:2.0.3-1
ii libxshmfence1 1.3-1
ii xserver-common 2:1.20.8-2
Versions of packages xserver-xephyr recommends:
ii libgl1-mesa-dri 19.3.3-1
xserver-xephyr suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
Closing bug: xserver-xephyr: Xephyr and Xnest: AltGr combined keystrokes
do not work while using German keyboard layout
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