On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 01:32 +0300, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On 2008-05-28 14:02 +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > > The original complainer > > should therefore have no problems on the version of X I'm running > > (from Etch), because the server simply masks the groups, or at > > least the one tied to Mode_Switch, and for some reason Ion actually > > masks the state with KNOWN_MODIFIERS_MASK in the binding search code > > although it does not ask as to grab things with other modifiers set. > > Actually, making Ion print things instead of relying on xev > alone, it appears that the X server does not set the Mode_Switch > bit (0x2000) on key events for grabbed keys, although it does set > it in events for non-grabbed keys (that xev can catch). Thus the > stray KNOWN_MODIFIERS_MASK code actually does nothing, and the > X server completely hides Mode_Switch (and any modifiers bound to > it) in events for grabbed keys -- but only for them. On my system, > that is. Smells like a rotting pile of kludges...
Yeah, grabbed keys are kluged so you don't see group modifiers. This is all spelled out in <http://www.xfree86.org/current/XKBproto.pdf> section 12.3. I still haven't worked out how to ignore group locking when looking at non-grab events. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
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