la 17.06.2008 01:02 Daniel Pfeiffer skribis:
since I recently got a US-builtin keyboard plus a German external one
I've been trying to get some sort of dual configuration, while
retaining my heavy XKB customization. Giving the differing keys two
groups, and switching with ISO_Next_Group didn't work due to a bug
which makes group2 also lock AltGr -- and I have mostly FOUR_LEVEL, so
I can't access the group2 base letters.
The bug is somewhat different, the server copies the levels 3 & 4 from
group 1 into levels 1 & 2 of a group2 it arbitrarily creates.
So the XKB developer suggested I use EIGHT_LEVEL, giving me sort of
the same result. I now have a key which locks a virtual level5
modifier, so that I get two sets of base, shift, AltGr & shift-AltGr.
The problem is that sawfish seems to notice the modifier, and since I
have no bindings with level5 (most of mine are Hyper), it thinks any
event isn't for sawfish :-( How, short of doubling every keybinding,
can I tell it to ignore level5?
I found a workaround for that bug, so now again I have group1 (about
us+euro) and group2 (about de) plus I have an empty group3 on many keys
for the workaround.
Again sawfish is causing problems -- this time inexplicable. When I
lock group2, be it via ISO_Next_Group or ISO_Last_Group (which despite
the name goes to group2) sawfish ignores keybindings. When I use
sawfishes' little prompt window, I can type normal text at it, but
return jumps to before the prompt and backspace inserts a little bit
icon. Going back to group1, both keys work again. I used the
customization dialog to see: in group1 for example I get the expected
H-F4, in group2 that becomes H-Button6-F4 and so on for all keys.
When I do xkbcomp -xkb :0 - to dump the keymap, it is as expected,
nothing about Button6 in there. Also when I hold Button2 in Emacs while
typing a letter at F1 c (keybinding lookup) the button is noticed but
then ignored. But this magic Button6 is not seen by Emacs, nor by xev.
This makes me think sawfish 1.3.1 has a problem with group2 :-(
coralament / best Grötens / liebe Grüße / best regards / elkorajn salutojn
Daniel Pfeiffer
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