FVWM: Re: strange keybindings - patch

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 23:02:54 +0200

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:19:25PM +0200, Martin Renold wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:57:25AM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > Please try the next snapshot or current CVS code. That should
> > resolve the problem.
>
> Thank you, it works! Though I do not yet understand how :-)

For years, I thought these mappings were server dependent and that
there was no way to figure them out. Finally, I understood that
the mappings have no fixed meaning. When you look at the output
of "xmodmap -pke" you can see that several keysyms can be bound to
a single keycode. The first column denotes the symbol without any
modifiers pressed. The second column denotes the symbol in
conjunction with shift. But that's nothing the X server enforces,
it is merely a convention among all X clients. All further
columns can be interpreted individually by each application.

So, the fix was simply to associate some modifiers with these
columns instead of whining about "unknown" modifiers.

> I will use your version and have a closer look in case it should fail
> somewhere else.

I'm going to add that patch to the next stable release too
(2.4.9). This version will be released within one or two
weeks.

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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