On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:44:32AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > I've seen a few comments by Branden Robinson which seem to indicate that > some change has been made in the keyboard configuration (perhaps that's > related to this). I'm cc'ing him to see if he has any insight on this.
Yes; it's a long, complex story. Basically, in 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 we backported from XFree86 CVS a fix by Ivan Pascal for problems with modifier keys when using multiple keyboard layouts at once. A kludge to restore the most grievously affected functionality was applied in -6, but a real fix is still forthcoming. The details are absurdly technical (and in part have to do with a lot of clients using only core X protocol functions for querying the keyboard despite this XKB era), and I don't have a full command of them myself, but I think I know what to do to make some better headway. I've begun consulting with Ivan Pascal on this subject, and he's been quite helpful. -- G. Branden Robinson | I am only good at complaining. Debian GNU/Linux | You don't want me near your code. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Dan Jacobson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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