Darwin keyboard woes

[Torrey Lyons]

At 11:50 PM -0800 12/21/04, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
>I'm a Mac user and I use uControl (http://gnufoo.org/ucontrol) to 
>remap the modifier keys on my keyboard so that I can do things like 
>turn caps-lock into command and swap the option and command keys by 
>the space bar.  Unfortunately it seems that any key that I touch 
>with uControl just vanishes as far as X is concerned.  For example, 
>if I turn caps-lock into command, launch X, then run xev, caps-lock 
>produces absolutely no response.  All this stuff works fine with 
>Apple's X11.app.  I understand that XDarwin handles the keyboard 
>differently, but I'm not sure how to go about solving this problem. 
>I would appreciate any suggestions that people have.
>
>Also, even without uControl in effect, I get no response in xev from 
>the option/alt key on my powerbook.  This is with Xorg 6.8.2 RC1 on 
>OS X 10.3.7, but I've seen the problem with every non-Apple X server 
>I've tried.

You should be the same behavior as X11.app if you don't use a 
keymapping file. You can do this by deleting the keymapping file 
listed in the the XDarwin.app preferences. You can check which kind 
of keymapping is being used by looking at the console log during 
XDarwin startup. Make sure it falls back to the system keymap.

(This should be more intuitive. The situation is that you have to use 
a keymapping file on 10.1 and can use either that or the system 
keymap on 10.2 or newer. However, on 10.3 or newer the keymapping 
files are not installed by default. Unfortunately the Preferences UI 
does not reflect any of this complexity. X11.app has the advantage of 
only targeting one OS version.)

--Torrey