Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.3.0-2 Severity: normal When remapping the "\|" key to the "Backspace" key and vice versa on a standard US 104 keyboard using:
xmodmap -e 'keycode 22 = backslash bar' xmodmap -e 'keycode 51 = BackSpace' Pressing "backspace" generates "\" when pressed as expected. Pressing "Shift+backspace" does not generate "|", as expected. Pressing "Shift+<|\>" also does not generate "|". This behavior has been reported to function as expected to me since at lease XFree 3.3.x but not >=4.3 Output of xev after remaping, upon pressing "backspace": KeyPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001, root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 4265320, (674,173), root:(677,243), state 0x0, keycode 22 (keysym 0x5c, backslash), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: "\" Output of xev after remaping, upon pressing "Shift+Backspace": KeyPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001, root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 4298603, (795,168), root:(798,238), state 0x1, keycode 22 (keysym 0x5c, backslash), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: "\" This appears to be distro & kernel independant, leading me to beleive it's a problem in the upstream code. A report under Red Hat 9: https://www.redhat.com/archives/xfree86-list/2003-September/msg00028.html Also the bug is present in NetBSD, here's the build info: XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 Release Date: 15 August 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: NetBSD/i386 1.6ZG [ELF] The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. Build Date: 19 December 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Cheers, -Dave -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.3-1077171141-dah-ganymede Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on: ii cpp 4:3.3.3-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdps1 4.3.0-2 Display PostScript (DPS) client li ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.2.1-16 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libice6 4.3.0-2 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-5 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 4.3.0-2 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxaw7 4.3.0-2 X Athena widget set library ii libxcursor1 1.0.2-4 X Cursor management library ii libxext6 4.3.0-2 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.2-5 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 4.3.0-2 X Window System Input extension li ii libxmu6 4.3.0-2 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxmuu1 4.3.0-2 lightweight X Window System miscel ii libxpm4 4.3.0-2 X pixmap library ii libxrandr2 4.3.0-2 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 0.8.3-5 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 4.3.0-2 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii libxtrap6 4.3.0-2 X Window System protocol-trapping ii libxtst6 4.3.0-2 X Window System event recording an ii libxv1 4.3.0-2 X Window System video extension li ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 4.3.0-2 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86] ii xlibmesa-glu [libglu1] 4.3.0-2 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree ii xlibs 4.3.0-2 X Window System client libraries m ii xlibs-data 4.3.0-2 X Window System client data ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-4 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information
