Bug 185647 – >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.11 - apps don't receive Greek letters from keyboard typed by Caps Lock + key

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Michal 'vorner' Vaner 2007-07-17 10:09:08 UTC]

I have my own keyboard layout with Caps Lock turned to other modifier key, like shift or alt, to write more kinds of character, like Greek letters.

With Qt, X or <Gtk+-2.10.11 it worked, after upgrade, the Gtk apps don't receive these characters. They do not appear in the input line, but they can be copied into it and show alright, so I guess it is in the input, not in fonts or rendering.

I'm using the xim input method for GTK (GTK_IM_MODULE="xim").

If the configs are of any use, they can by found as http://vorner.pretel.cz/xkbconf.tar.bz2 - I took everything that is above standard xkb configs, there may be some files that are not used by this particular setup.

Any other information I could provide? Or should I put the report somewhere else?

Thank you

[Comment 1 Michal 'vorner' Vaner 2007-07-17 22:06:40 UTC]

I was playing around a little bit with the code and traced the problem to file modules/input/gtkimcontextxim.c. I diffed it against some old working version and found only these 2 changes:

580c580
<       else
---
>       else if (context_xim->im_info->im)
730a731,734
>   if (event->state &
>       (gtk_accelerator_get_default_mod_mask () & ~(GDK_SHIFT_MASK | GDK_CONTROL_MASK))) 
>     return FALSE;
>

With this file (only the file, nothing else) downgraded to the original version, the characters started working.

I'm going to trace which of these 2 changes caused the problem and will try to find out, why this change happened.

[Comment 2 Michal 'vorner' Vaner 2007-07-18 09:44:01 UTC]

So I identified it to the second longer change (the "if (event->state & ..."). It is revision 17446 (http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk+?view=revision&revision=17446).

Do you think I should put this bug to the gtk's bugzilla? It seems like all gtk will do this, not just gentoo one.

Thank you

[Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2007-07-18 23:17:39 UTC]

I suggest you open a bug upstream and post the url here. Upstream gtk devs will probably be know why this change was made. Thanks :)

[Comment 4 Michal 'vorner' Vaner 2007-07-19 10:46:14 UTC]

Ok, it is submitted to bugzilla.gnome.org as bug #458259.

[Comment 5 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-05-28 06:45:59 UTC]

Michal,

Is this still an issue? Could you try pinging upstream again (or closing the bug if it's fixed) ?

Thanks

[Comment 6 Michal 'vorner' Vaner 2008-05-29 08:23:34 UTC]

Good morning

> Is this still an issue? Could you try pinging upstream again (or closing the
> bug if it's fixed) ?

Yes, the problem is still valid with gtk+-2.12.9-r2 package. I wrote to the gnome bugzilla again today and hope they will do something about it.

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2010-03-13 10:28:30 UTC]

Still the case with 2.18?

[Comment 8 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2010-03-13 17:54:03 UTC]

Please don't hesitate to reopen this bug if you can still reproduce with an updated version of gtk+.

Thanks