On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:04:31PM +0100, Michael Lange wrote:
> now I am getting confused ;)
Welcome to the club. ;]
> When I run the above example (or the one by the OP) and press Alt-s,
> nothing is inserted in the entry, and that is just what I would expect
> as of the widget's default bindings, or am I missing something here?
That was my original expectation, I'm trying to solve why the
implementation does not match.
> The default bindings are defined in entry.tcl, the relevant part looks
> like:
>
> # Ignore all Alt, Meta, and Control keypresses unless explicitly bound.
> # Otherwise, if a widget binding for one of these is defined, the
> # <KeyPress> class binding will also fire and insert the character,
> # which is wrong. Ditto for Escape, Return, and Tab.
>
> bind Entry <Alt-KeyPress> {# nothing}
I see these comments, however they don't exclude Mod1, just alt and
other modifiers.
>
> Now, when I comment out the above line and run the examples, the "s" is
> actually inserted in the entry. Russell, is it possible that you miss
> entry.tcl or that it is somehow broken? This would explain why the "s"
> is inserted when Mod1 is used - but unfortunately not why Alt is not
> working :(
See below.
> I still suspect the WM... ;)
I don't believe it's the WM. Awesome is minimal unlike something like
KDE or GNOME. I don't control keyboard mappings from it, only xmodmap.
So here's a rundown.
If I reset my keyboard mappings using setxkbmap, my xmodmap looks
like:
$ xmodmap
xmodmap: up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock
control Control_L (0x25), Control_L (0x42), Control_R (0x69)
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3
mod4 Super_L (0x85), Super_R (0x86), Super_L (0xce), Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod5 ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c), Mode_switch (0xcb)
My .Xmodmap:
$ cat .Xmodmap
keycode 108 = Alt_R Meta_R ISO_Level3_Shift
add mod4 = Alt_R
After applying:
$ xmodmap
xmodmap: up to 5 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock
control Control_L (0x25), Control_L (0x42), Control_R (0x69)
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3
mod4 Alt_R (0x6c), Super_L (0x85), Super_R (0x86), Super_L (0xce),
Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod5 ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c), Mode_switch (0xcb)
I just tested this TCL snippet, and when I reset it works, when I use
the xmodmap for making Alt_R mod4 it doesn't work. How odd, so digging deeper.
The following is from xev:
Reset, pressing just s:
KeyPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
root 0xac, subw 0x0, time 51186823, (561,583), root:(650,603),
state 0x0, keycode 39 (keysym 0x73, s), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (73) "s"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (73) "s"
XFilterEvent returns: False
After xmodmap, pressing s:
KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
root 0xac, subw 0x0, time 51276203, (609,741), root:(698,761),
state 0x0, keycode 39 (keysym 0x73, s), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (73) "s"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (73) "s"
XFilterEvent returns: False
Reset, pressing Alt-s:
KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
root 0xac, subw 0x0, time 51190045, (561,583), root:(650,603),
state 0x8, keycode 39 (keysym 0x73, s), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (73) "s"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (73) "s"
XFilterEvent returns: False
After xmodmap, pressing Alt-s:
KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
root 0xac, subw 0x0, time 51277296, (609,741), root:(698,761),
state 0x8, keycode 39 (keysym 0x73, s), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (73) "s"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (73) "s"
XFilterEvent returns: False
The xev data is identical, whether I'm using my xmodmap or not. The Tk
behavior *IS* different, without xmodmap Alt works, and with it only
Mod1 is honored.
Getting closer to an answer, but still trying to explain the
behavior.
Does this mean that when Alt_R is bound to anything, the Alt_L
behavior changes? Any why only for Tk?
Thanks.
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