xkb: wrong KeySym at first start of X

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:15:37PM +0200, chris_honschu at gmx.de wrote:
> at the first start and at the very beginning of a running X
> the KeySym changes from a wrong value to the correct
> one.
> Is this a bug? Because thereby my window-manager 
> keymappings go wrong.
> 
> I have a 'de' (German) keyboard (qwertz).
> For the first ~14k loops of xkeytest the button "y" is
> referred to a 'z':
> 
> loop-nr.:0 testing KeyCode=52 -> KeySym 0x7a name=z
> loop-nr.:13906 testing KeyCode=52 -> KeySym 0x79 name=y


the internal virtual keyboard is initialized with the default layout ('us'),
the physical keyboard with 'de' per your configuration. once you hit a key
on the german layout, this layout it copied over into the virtual one and
the virtual keyboard also has a german layout.
so the change from 'us' to 'de' is not accidental.

the problem here seems to be that the client doesn't listen to mappin
a client should listen to MappingNotify or the respective XKB events to
re-load the keysym table when the layout changes.

Cheers,
  Peter