Recent input changes

[Paulo César Pereira de Andrade]

Peter Hutterer wrote:

>>   The only strange behavior I noticed so far (after waiting some
>> days to run git master again :-)) was with the Alt key. xev says
>> order of events is correct, but the event state field appears to
>> be messed, and only set to the proper value after the next key
>> press. This breaks all Alt+<key> shortcuts in xedit (help) :-)
>
> the state field shows the modifier state before the key was pressed.
>
> FWIW, I had problems with my Alt key not working after updating.  Creating
> a
> test user worked fine though, and after removing the .gnome2 and
> .gnome2_private directories in my home directory everything was ok again.
> I
> don't know why this fixed it or why the problem occured in the first
> place.

  Maybe it is something related to modifiers? xkbvleds doesn't
"update" to match active leds, while xkbwatch does.
  I don't use gnome, but to make sure, I removed the .gnome*
directories.

  I made a few other basic tests, mouse keys appears to be
completely wrong, jumping to either bottom/right of screen,
or just "maximum Y".

  I am running git master of every freedesktop package.
  Now that I am here :-) Will the joystick, keyboard and void
drivers be updated to compile with git master?

  Most applications appears to work, i.e. Alt+F will open
the menu dialog in firefox, Alt+Tab will circulate windows
in windowmaker. The problem appears to affect libXt based
applications, but Alt also doesn't work in emacs.

Paulo