Re: [wmii] dmenu patches and os x issue

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 05:21:19PM +0100, Alexis Hildebrandt wrote:
> 1. reduce the LOC by 2 lines
> 2. allow CTRL-[ as an alias for ESC

I applied both.

> I ran into a problem when using the latest dmenu on Apple's X11 that
> comes with OS X.
>
> For some reason the XKeyEvent produced by ALT+g with an Us or Us
> Extended keyboard map matches the Mod1Mask but the KeySym that is
> returned by XLookupString does not match XK_g, but rather XK_copyright
> for Us and Us Extended.
> This does also happen with the other keys, namely XK_h, XK_l, XK_j,...
> Some of the values of the generated KeySym are not even defined in
> X11/keysumdef.h.
>
> The following table you will find the keysym definitions from
> X11/keysymdef.h and the numerical value as I've seen them with
> the Us and Us Extended keyboard. Hope it helps...
>
> wmiiwm | Us | Us Extended
> ========+========================+=============================
> XK_h | XK_abovedot (0x1ff) | - (0x10002cd)
> XK_l | - (0xac) | XK_minus
> XK_j | - (0x1002206) | XK_dead_abovering (0xfe58)
> XK_k | - (0x10002da) | XK_dead_doubleacute (0xfe59)
> XK_g | XK_copyright (0xa9) | XK_copyright (0xa9)
> XK_G | XK_doubleacute (0x1bd) | - (0xafc)
>
> Has anyone experienced similar behaviour with dmenu on OS X?
>
> I've patched kpress() in main.c of dmenu to match the other cases, but
> there must a better solution than this that should involve configuration
> of the X11 keyboard map.
> Any ideas?

I have no experience with Apple's X11 so far due the lack of an
Apple computer. Can you check if there are some Lock keys
enabled? Are dwm/wmii keypresses recognized correctly?

Regards,

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