Control blocks Alt in keybindings
Daniel Stone
daniel at fooishbar.org
Mon Dec 3 04:49:21 PST 2007
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:35:54AM +0100, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> I use Xorg 7.3 on a Gentoo GNU/Linux machine. When I want to enter
> keybindings involving both Control (C) and Alt (M) it seems that Control
> is blocking the Alt key if I press it first.
>
> Let's say I want to type the binding C-M-a by first pressing Control,
> then Alt and then "a", it's translated to only C-a. With xev I get the
> following order:
>
> KP-C, KP-a, KR-a, KP-M, KR-M, KR-C
>
> where KP is KeyPress and KR is KeyRelease.
>
> I can type C-M-a by first pressing Alt, then Control and then "a".
>
> I tried this with both stumpwm and twm, so it shouldn't be the window
> manager stealing the keys.
>
> I use a German Dvorak layout, but tested with
>
> setxkblayout "us"
>
> too and got the same results.
>
> Is this a bug or what can be the culprit?
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865 will come into play if
you have certain XKB options such as grp:ctrl_shift_toggle.
Cheers,
Daniel
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