keycodes all off by one with GTK and $DISPLAY pointing to an R5 server

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Mon Sep 19 08:03:03 PDT 2005


Kean Johnston wrote:
> So, I have two questions really: Why is everything off-by-one,
> and why does GTK use the keycode, and not the keysym?

There must be something wrong in your setup.   GTK apps run fine on
Solaris Xsun, which uses completely different keycode values than
XFree86/Xorg does.    (Except for a few broken ones like the GNOME
applet to load keytable layouts from xmodmap files, but those are
simply designed to be broken.)

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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