Re: FVWM: alt+shift works, shift+alt not

From: Roland Hautz <insal047h_at_inn-salzach.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:24:42 +0100 (CET)

Hi,

playing around with xkeycaps I got convinced at last, that SuSE qualifies
indeed as Loser Vendor (see xkeycaps.1x) with its xkb setup. I removed
Meta_L from the alt keycode and am already recovering from my alt before
shift habit.

thanks,

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Dominik Vogt wrote:

> Yes, it does. Your problem occurs because fvwm can not decide
> whether it should have expected Shift pressed for the Alt_L key or
> not. To understand the problem, consider this:
>
> Some keyboards map Shift-F1 to F11. Now, what does this binding
> mean?
>
> Key F11 A S something
>
> Does this apply to Shift-F1?
>
> Unfortunately it's not possible to find out exactly which key was
> pressed with which modifiers held, so all you can do is guess. In
> fvwm, I decided to ignore the "S" in this binding and treat it
> exactly like
>
> Key F1 A S something
> Key F11 S something
>
> This can have some funny results in some exotic cases like yours.
> I'd like to fix it, but doing so will inadvertedly break other
> cases.
>
> Ciao
>
> Dominik ^_^ ^_^
>

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Roland Hautz
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