[PATCH xkbcomp] symbols: increase the warning level for shortening a key type

Benno Schulenberg bensberg at justemail.net
Thu Nov 5 07:21:14 PST 2015


On Tue, Nov 3, 2015, at 00:06, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> Any use of the german keyboard layout or anything else using
> level3(ralt_switch) produces the warning
>     Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
>     Ignoring extra symbols
> This warning is meaningless, the default definition for RALT comes from
> pc(pc105) including altwin(meta_alt) which defines it as TWO_LEVEL
> and { Alt_R, Meta_R }. Including level3(ralt_switch) correctly sets it as
> ONE_LEVEL but now we get the warning. That makes users file bug reports and we
> can't be having that, can we?

A patch that actually fixes the bug that causes this warning to printed
was proposed and reviewed a year ago:
  http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/attachments/20140911/e675c15a/attachment.patch

It was first posted here;
  http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-September/043751.html

Any chance of applying it still?

Benno

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