David Dawes wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:06:36AM -0500, Kevin Brosius wrote:
>
> >> Does the server work correctly other than the key sequence not
> >> working? If it is stuck somewhere, it might explain both why
> >> SIGTERM and SIGHUP didn't do anything and why the terminate key
> >> sequence didn't work.
> >
> >Yes, the server seems to work fine, other than ignoring Ctl-Alt-BkSpc.
> >Other Alt sequences work, like Ctl-Alt-+.
>
> Those other sequences are handled in the same way as Ctl-Alt-BkSpc,
> so it does point to the mapping for that one getting overriden after
> the X server starts.
>
> >> Could you send the 'xmodmap -pk' output? Are you running any
> >> xmodmap script as part of your startx/xdm rc files that might be
> >> re-mapping the BackSpace key?
> >
> >The patch doesn't seem to make a difference.
> >
> >I've attached xmodmap -pk.
>
> The only difference I see between yours and mine is that mine has the
> following for the backspace key:
>
> 22 0xff08 (BackSpace) 0xfed5 (Terminate_Server)
>
> while yours is:
>
> 22 0xff08 (BackSpace)
>
> >xmodmap scripts, that may be it. It looks like SuSE uses a .xinitrc
> >which may call 'xmodmap /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xmodmap' if it exists and
> >XSESSION_IS_UP is set. Although it comments that XSESSION_IS_UP is set
> >by xdm, which I am not running. If it where set, it would use an old
> >Xmodmap, as I've changed ProjectRoot on this machine and that default
> >path is an older version, 4.1.0.
> >
> >Other than that, I don't see anything calling xmodmap. And I don't
> >think it's calling that one, since it's xdm related.
>
> A way to double-check this is to run something like:
>
> startx /path/to/your/twm
>
> or just: 'XFree86'
>
> and see if the server terminate sequence works then.
Yes, this case works. So, something in my setup (an xmodmap call I
haven't located yet?) is incompatible with the recent changes?
When started this way, running xmodmap -pk against the server does show:
22 0xff08 (BackSpace) 0xfed5 (Terminate_Server)
--
Kevin
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