Re: Minor issue when using alternate xkb groups

Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2008-05-29, Ben Hutchings <ben-/[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.  

*puke* 

Adn the example in §12.1... *eugh*. Mod3 held, but mapped to group 
switch ==> don't let "XKB-aware" apps know that it is held. And 
apparently "XKB-aware" in this context means that Xlib is aware
of it, not that your program is. 

Fuck Xkb. It's not only the anti-configuration files that are shit.
All of it is.

Someone needs to be taken behind the sauna.

> I still haven't worked out how to ignore group locking when
> looking at non-grab events.

You probably need to specifically support the piece of shit Xkb
extension for that.


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Tuomo
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