Bug 114459

Summary:	mode_switch key ignored
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Wolfgang Arendt <wolare>
Component:	gtk+	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Wolfgang Arendt 2004-01-28 13:23:44 UTC

Description of problem:
Failure trying to enter tne @-character (which is Alt-GR + q on my
german keyboard).

My configuration:
I use Exceed Version 9 on Windows XP as X server from a remote
machine. My Keyboard in Exceed is configured to german.xkb. Changing
of keyboard layout is allowed in Exceed. In Control Center my keyboard
is configured to de-latin1 w/o deadkeys. I am able to enter the @
character in an xterm and other X applications but not in gtk2 (?)
applications, especially in the Red Hat configuration utility for apache.
I have installed the 'server' selection of Red Hat 9 and I have chosen
to 'install everything' later on. My hardware is a Compaq Proliant DL380.

Changing my keyboard layout with 
  xmodmap -e 'keycode  19 = ssharp question backslash t'
(note the 't', which is _not_ standard on german keyboards) enables me
to enter the @ sign (apparently enabling my Alt-GR key). It remains
this way, even when switching back to normal german keyboard layout with
  xmodmap -e 'keycode  19 = ssharp question backslash'
I tried with 'xev', whether X ignores, that I press the Alt-GR key
(keycode 97, Mode_switch), but obviously it does.




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. set Display variable and start redhat-config-httpd
2. try to enter an @, \ or | character and fail
3. run xmodmap -e 'keycode 19 = ssharp question backslash t' &&
  xmodmap -e 'keycode 19 = ssharp question backslash'
  
Actual results:
Before step 3 it is not possible to enter characters @, \ and |.
After step 3 it is.

Expected results:
The same behaviour without running the xmodmap commands.

Additional info:
There is no keycode definition with four meanings of a single keycode
in the german keyboard definition.

Comment 1 Wolfgang Arendt 2004-01-28 23:59:39 UTC

My statement about trying with xev is ambiguous. It should read:
I tried, whether X ignores a depressed Alt-GR key, but it does not
ignore it.

Comment 2 Phil Knirsch 2004-07-30 15:52:48 UTC

Hm, but that sounds more of a underlying problem, the
redhat-config-httpd application can't do anything about keyboard input.

I'm reassigning this bug to gtk, maybe it's a know problem there.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2004-09-08 19:45:03 UTC

I think this is the same problem as 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144808

Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2004-09-20 15:37:25 UTC

I assume that this is fixed with gtk2-2.2.4-8.1 in RHEL3, but I have a
hard time testing it, since I don't have access to an Exceed X server...