[BUG] WinKey modifier doesn't work in XFree86-4.3.0-22.1

[Mike A. Harris]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

>It seems that since XFree86-4.3.0-22.1, the Windows key on my keyboard
>isn't recognized as a valid modifier (i.e. like Alt or Ctrl) anymore by
>KDE. Please, see bugzilla for more information:
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103051

It looks like xkb bugs are a case of chasing a carrot tied to the 
end of a stick attached to my forehead.  ;o/

Stock XFree86 4.3.0 contained a number of xkb related bugs, a lot 
of which are reported in our bugzilla.  I got people to report 
these upstream more or less as they came in, and Ivan Pascal has 
fixed almost all of them in XFree86 CVS.  Recently I began 
backporting those fixes to 4.3.0 so that our newer packages fixed 
the bugs people reported.

While the majority of xkb patches I've added recently did fix 
lots of things with no problems, one of the patches broke 
modifiers.  A new patch was applied to fix that, and now 2 new 
bugs have been reported (possibly more on the way).

I haven't looked into the newest bugs yet, but I'm going to 
examine them soon.  If I can't see any obvious fix, I'm going to 
rip out the 2 previous changes that have mucked with modifiers, 
so we end up with RHL 9 behaviour for this, and the original bug 
comes back.  It's better to have one consistent bug present than 
to fix it and have 2 new ones that affect everyone out there.

Thanks for noticing this, and reporting it.  Hopefully it'll be 
gone from rawhide before the weekend.

Take care,
TTYL



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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat