Re: [Texmacs-dev] AltGr-Key and XFree86-4.3

[David Allouche]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 07:10:24PM +0200, David Allouche wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:39:18AM +0200, David Allouche wrote:
> > Hey! A user just sent us a tentative fix to the AltGr problem.
> > 
> > Is anyone using a problematic XFree86 willing to try it?
> > 
> > Extra points awarded for the one who can figure out how to actually
> > do keysym resolution cleanly (hint inside the message).
> 
> Actually, I just gave it a try.
> 
> The patch (for 1.0.1.14) is aggressively simple. It just replaces the
> existing convoluted keysym getting code by a simple Xlib function
> which supposedly does it all.
> 
> It needs testing. A lot of testing. As much testing as you can.
> At least: XFree3, XFree4.3 (of course), Solaris, Cygwin, MacOSX.

After all, it may not need that much testing.

I checked gtk+-1.2, qt-x11-2.3 and emacs21. They all get the keysyms
using XLookupString. GTK and Qt do not use XLookupKeysym at all and
emacs only uses it for a minor hack (pulling up menus when a
non-modifier key is pressed).

So, I am convinced the old code is out. It would be nice if you could
test my patch to work on your system in order to convince Joris.

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