Re: Alt + CHTN for arrow key movement, XKB?

Danilo Segan <dsegan <at> gmx.net> writes:

> This is a Gtk+ issue.
> 
> Try looking at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100439
> 

Well, the whole xkb/group/level mess is way over my head at the moment. 
I've been trying to understand xkb and I still find it illusive. BUT, I have
fixed the problem manually, this is a hack of course, but for those who just 
want it to work, here is how I did it:

My types/basic file is here:
http://ahmad.baitalmal.com/xkb/basic
This defines the new type ALT_NAV

My symbols/pc/dvorak file is here:
http://ahmad.baitalmal.com/xkb/dvorak.alt_nav
The original file is here (default from gentoo/xfree86)
http://ahmad.baitalmal.com/xkb/dvorak.orig

The previous posts show that I actually got this working just fine. Except for
gtk+ apps. I recompiled gtk with --enable-debug and exporting
GTK_DEBUG=keybinding in the env. Then I tried a few mappings, 
here are the results:
http://ahmad.baitalmal.com/xkb/xkbdiff.png

Pressing the "a" key in all cases looks the same, especially the
consumed_modifiers part, it stayed the same.

As soon as I press a key with something defined for level3 ("h" in the 
example given) things start to look wierd. You can see the symbols 
definitions I used and the results.

SO the solution for me was to patch gtkkeyhash.c and force it to set 
the correct consumed_modifiers when the keys I care about are pressed.
Here is the patch file:
http://ahmad.baitalmal.com/xkb/
gtk_altnav_consumed_modifiers_fix.patch

If anyone has any questions or knows how to really fix this, feel free to
contact me.

Take care,
Ahmad Baitalmal
http://ahmad.baitalmal.com