Bug 386561

Summary:	Xkeyboard-config-2.4.1 Breaks Extended Function Keys
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Frank Peters <frank.peters>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	tetromino
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://forums.funtoo.org/viewtopic.php?id=817
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Description Frank Peters 2011-10-09 18:28:41 UTC

The extended function keys, F13-F24, which are accessible as Shift+Fn, where Fn are the ordinary function keys F1-F12, are broken by the package xkeyboard-config-2.4.1.  Pressing the combination Shift+Fn within an application does not produce the intended extended function key.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge xkeyboard-config-2.4.1 and restart X.
2. Open an application that used extended function keys, e.g. mc, cooledit.
3. Press the combination Shift+Fn
Actual Results:  
The action specified by the extended function key does not occur.


Expected Results:  
The action specified by the extended function key should occur.


Downgrading to xkeyboard-config-2.3 restores the Shift+Fn functionality.

Comment 1 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-10-12 16:48:06 UTC

In addition, xkeyboard-config-2.4.1 breaks Shift+Backspace and Shift+Delete: under older versions of xkeyboard-config they used to work the same as backspace and delete, but now they don't do anything.

This is very iconvenient when one makes a mistake while typing an all-caps string, e.g. a long macro name in C code.

Comment 2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2011-10-14 22:09:52 UTC

Patch applied in 2.4.1-r1.