[Bug 1882] New: xkb (mis?)configuration yields invalid data in XGetKeyboardMapping request

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           Summary: xkb (mis?)configuration yields invalid data in
                    XGetKeyboardMapping request
           Product: xorg
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Server/general
        AssignedTo: xorg-bugzilla-noise at freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: csr21 at cam.ac.uk


Following discussion on the portable-clx mailing list (CLX is a Common Lisp
implementation of the X client protocol) it is suspected that there is an X
server bug.  The details of the configuration in question are at
<URL:http://lists.metacircles.com/pipermail/portable-clx/2004-October/000056.html>
(I don't understand xkb, but I believe the relevant part is 'adding xkb
"type=TWO_LEVEL" for the BKSP key') and the results yield by XGetKeyboardMapping
become bogus.

This bug report may be two bugs, because the C Xlib bindings hide this problem
by calling KeyCodetoKeySym for each entry in the keyboard mapping, rather than
trusting the server's response to XGetKeyboardMapping; while this is possibly
more robust, it increases the number of server round trips.        
   
   
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