On 21/12/04 at 11:35 +0200, era eriksson wrote: > Package: x2x > Version: 1.27-8 > Severity: normal > > I'm running x2x over to a Woody system and it works wonderfully apart > from one thing: on my Finnish keyboard, characters such as '|' and '\' > are typed with AltGr, and this doesn't work on the remote desktop. > Instead, I get the unshifted characters, i.e. AltGr+'<' produces just > '<' instead of the expected '|'. On the local display, this works as > expected. > > Here's the command I'm using: > > bash$ ssh -f -X remotehost x2x -east -to $DISPLAY > > x2x over on the Woody box is 1.27-5.1 -- if upgrading to a newer > version fixes this, it's not advertised in the changelog. > > Running xev on the remote system, I can see that other shift keys are > transferred correctly, but pressing AltGr doesn't result in anything > at all in xev. (Locally, I get this: > > KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x5000001, > root 0x3b, subw 0x0, time 86116041, (140,105), root:(1556,976), > state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" > > KeyRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x5000001, > root 0x3b, subw 0x0, time 86120867, (140,104), root:(1556,975), > state 0x80, keycode 113 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen > YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" > > .... which looks okay to me, although on the other display, if I type > AltGr on the local keyboard, xev says this instead: > > KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001, > root 0x31, subw 0x0, time 4108957447, (73,108), root:(593,571), > state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" > > KeyRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001, > root 0x31, subw 0x0, time 4108960807, (73,108), root:(593,571), > state 0x2000, keycode 113 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" > > Should I somehow attempt to unify the discrepancy, i.e. configure the > Woody X server to generate ISO_Level3_Shift instead, or vice versa? > Can I do that with xmodmap even though it doesn't even seem to > register the keypress currently?) > > I imagine this is related to #256857 but my understanding of how X > manages keypresses is limited.
Hi era, can you still reproduce that problem ? It works fine for me (but I use a french keyboard, not a finnish one). -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]