does XkbSetMap affect XTestFakeKeyEvent?

Daiki Ueno ueno at unixuser.org
Wed Oct 24 19:52:58 PDT 2012


Daiki Ueno <ueno at unixuser.org> writes:

> (1) assign a keysym to some unused keycode (like keycode 246, which
>     XF86WLAN is assigned here) with XkbSetMap
> (2) send key press event using XTestFakeKeyEvent to get the keysym typed
>
> Is this supposed to work?  After (1), I could type the new keysym with
> physical keyboard, but couldn't with XTestFakeKeyEvent.  If I change the
> mapping with XChangeKeyboardMapping instead of XkbSetMap, it seems to
> work with both physical and virtual keyboard.

Sorry for the noise.
It was solved by setting xkb->device_spec when calling XkbSetMap.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno


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