In the year 2017, of the month of May, on the 24th day, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 05:42:05PM +1000, Dave wrote: > > The bug is with Xorg. > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/998310 > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550533 > > Xorg won't fix it, as they consider this feature deprecated. The best > > solution is to modify your XKB system files. > > This is the bug we agreed is in X: loading an .Xmodmap while X is > running causes a long freeze which seems dependent on how many clients > you have running. > The issue I'm describing only happens with newer enlightenment on 2 > different machines, and does not happen with old enlightenment or > cinamon. > Once xmodmap is loaded very early on, I can type éèéèéèéè all day > without issues. > If I upgrade to E 0.21, then it hangs badly after a few characters.
Ahhh, fair enough. Yep, I misunderstood your issue. Or did I? It could be that the new enlightenment is somehow triggering a Xmodmap reload, which means this is exactly the bug that is affecting you. Certainly the symptoms are the same. > Is there a chance E 0.21 does something different than other WMs and in > turn it still triggers a bug in X? > > > > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/122151/xmodmap-problems-and-inconsistencies-with-more-than-4-alternative-symbols-per-ke > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_KeyBoard_extension#xmodmap > > > > I had the same issue as you, but I've moved to my own custom XKB config > > now. > > Works much better, although I lose the ability to alter my keys on the fly. > > If the bug is in X and is WONTFIX, then I'll look at other ways to > change my keys though, but so far the bug I described has only been in > newer E. > I'm still curious if Raster can reproduce it with his top of tree build, > or not. My thought is you should migrate away from Xmodmap anyway. Give XKB a go, and see how well it works for you. I'm curious to see if it will help your issue. Cheers, dave.k ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
