Re: [PATCH] qemu-keymap: fix altgr modifier lookup for newer xkeyboard-config

Michael Tokarev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.nongnu.qemu-trivial,org.nongnu.qemu-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 08.04.2026 12:14, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> xkeyboard-config 2.37 removed the "AltGr" virtual modifier in favor
> of mapping upper groups directly to Mod5. Since then,
> xkb_keymap_mod_get_index(map, "AltGr") returns XKB_MOD_INVALID, so
> AltGr-based keysyms were never generated.
> 
> See: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/commit/473f9bc32f9ba869829cc0d06a75cd1f2560aa60
> 
> Try "AltGr" first, and fall back to "Mod5" for compatibility with
> both old and new xkeyboard-config versions.

Maybe we can go the other way 'round, namely, first try Mod5,
and if that's not available, try AltGr?  This way, "current"
way will be tried first, and "compat" way will be a last resort?

But anyway,

Reviewed-by: Michael Tokarev <[email protected]>

Thanks,

/mjt
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