Re: [dwm] dwm stealing input

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:42:12PM +0930, Stephen Caraher wrote:
> On 11:03, Wed 25 Oct 06, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 06:24:13PM +0930, Stephen Caraher wrote:
> > > After I start dwm or wmii, I have a problem where the window manager appears not
> > > to pass input on to clients. For example, I can start urxvt with my modkey+enter
> > > bind, or any other program with modkey+p which launches dmenu, which gets my
> > > input fine. I can then switch focus between these programs and close them, but
> > > none of them ever recieve any of my input. Urxvt's cursor flashes whenever I
> > > press a key, but nothing appears in its window. Xterm acts as if I'm not
> > > pressing anything, as does firefox.
> > >
> > > This problem only affects dwm/wmii, not other WM's. It's happened on and off
> > > over the past few months, it used to happen sometimes after I first started
> > > using wmii. Today it's come back after I accidentally trashed my .Xmodmap and
> > > .Xdefaults.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any solutions or suggestions about how to further proceed
> > > here.
> >
> > Hmm, that is odd. I suspect there might be a problem with your
> > MODKEY-mapping, maybe that is trashed. Check if you can use
> > different modifier keys as well e.g. instead of Mod1-Return press WinKey-Return...
> >
> > If that launches a terminal as well there is something broken.
> >
> > Despite of that, check if toggling NumLock or ScrollLock has any
> > different effects.
> >
> > After all, dwm/wmii should have no effect on all keys which
> > aren't passively grabbed in combination with a modifier key
> > (MODKEY). Check if you can type w for example.
>
> I launched xev through dmenu to look for clues as to what's going on. Every time
> I press a key, I get this sequence of events:
>
> FocusIn event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x600001, mode NotifyUngrab,
> detail NotifyAncestor
>
> KeymapNotify event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
> keys: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
> FocusOut event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x600001,
> mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor
>
> FocusOut event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x600001,
> mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyPointer
>
> So "key number two" is apparently being held down, although I'm not touching
> anything on the keyboard. I'm running openbox right now, and when I move in and
> out of xev without touching the keyboard, the KeymapNotify looks like this
> instead:
>
> KeymapNotify event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
> keys: 92 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
> My MODKEY is the same as it's always been in my config.h, it's just "#define
> MODKEY = Mod1Mask", and my .Xmodmap doesn't touch the mod keys. What my .Xmodmap
> does do though, that might be relevant, is it swaps the Escape and Caps Lock
> keys, like this:
>
> remove Lock = Caps_Lock
> keysym Escape = Caps_Lock
> keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
> add Lock = Caps_Lock
>
> As for the pressing w or trying WinKey instead of Mod1 or changing num/scroll
> lock, none of it has any effect.

Since you get no KeyPress events, I suspect there is something
broken. Check if it works without your .Xmodmap.

Regards,

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