Status: Unconfirmed Owner: ---- Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-All Area-Misc New issue 24095 by jonasbernoulli: XKB redirection causes multiple key events http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24095
Chrome Version : 4.0.221.7 (Developer Build 28103) URLs (if applicable) : Other browsers tested: Firefox 3.5: FAIL, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500674 What steps will reproduce the problem? 0. setxkbmap -print # so the current configuration can later be restored 1. cd /path/to/xkb/configuration # likely /usr/share/X11/xkb 2. patch -p5 --backup < us-redirect.2.diff 3. setxkbmap -layout us 4. start chromium, load a page with a text area 4.1 enter some text, move around with "C-j"->"left" and "C-l"->"right" 4.2 enter a j, k or l -> char is insert, but some other actions occurs also 5. setxkbmap -layout "the one from above" What is the expected result? Pressing <char> when Control-<char> is redirected (using xkb) to some other key should just insert <char> and not in addition call whatever function is bound to Control-<char>. What happens instead? Pressing <char> when Control-<char> is redirected inserts <char> but also performs the function bound to Control-<char>. In X11 using the X keyboard extension (xkb) it is possible to redirect one key to another. For example I have redirected "Control+j" to "left", "Control+l" to "right" and likewise other keys. So when I press "j" while control is pressed this is supposed to redirect to another key and release all modifier state before doing so. So all applications should see/handle is the resulting "left" without a modifier set. This works correctly in Chromium; when I press Control+j the cursor moves left. However if I press just "j" in a text area "j" is inserted but then chrome://downloads/ is also opened (what C-j) is supposed to do. In the address bar pressing "j" behaves as expected. This is rather strange, while one might expect "C-j" not to correctly be redirected to "j" one would not expect "j" to cause any problems. The only other application (firefox - what bad luck) I could find that is not able to handle redirected keys, only misbehaves in case of "C-j"->"left" not "j". Ps: Unless this is going to be fixed quickly, please tell me where the bindings for C-j, C-l ... are made in the source, so that I can comment them out as a workaround. Thx. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
