Debugging keyboard overlay+xbindkeys

[Mihail Konev]

On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 12:37:44AM +0500, Mihail Konev wrote:
> The only reason not to use arrow-keysyms-on-levels is that
> MonoDevelop, Java apps, VTE do not recognize them as "arrows",
> i.e. you cannot shift-select, or shift-scroll.
> 
> A possible solution to avoid abovementioned indirection when
> defining "arrow layers" would be to have ShiftModsOnly flag,
> which would then be put onto arrow keysyms.
> This is only a workaround around broken clients, of course.
Maybe java does this correctly.

As for VTE, it is xfce4-terminal that has broken shift-scroll:
it resets the position each time when pressing Level3 shift modifier.
I.e. it assumes that Shift is the only shifting modifier possible.

ShiftModsOnly should have been named "ShiftIsTheOnlyModifier".