Debugging keyboard overlay+xbindkeys

Mariusz Mazur mariusz.g.mazur at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 19:41:28 UTC 2016


Question is, was it there for 22 years cause it's unfixable or because
nobody uses overlay? :)

2016-11-04 19:33 GMT+01:00  <wettstae at gmail.com>:
>> - press caps
>> - press f
>> - release caps
>> - wait
>> - release f
>
> In xserver/xkb/xkbPrKeyEv.c, there is a bug that prevents key
> press/release to be tracked properly for keys with overlays, in case
> such a key is down while the overlay state changes.  There is even a
> comment (from 9/11/94) that mentions the problem.
>
> Andreas
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