If used with keyboard layouts that have KeySymsPerKeycode > 4 (e.g. Czech) some xkbd keys do not send symbols.
Steps to reproduce: 1) Configure X to use keyboard layout that has KeySymsPerKeycode > 4 (e.g. cz). 2) Start xkbd. 3) Click on key with bar (|). Nothing happened, but the bar (|) should be sent.
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Created attachment 205664 [details, diff] Search keysyms only in columns 1-4.
The xkbd searches all columns in the used layout to find a way how to translate KeySyms to keycodes or to find a free space for remapping. It stops on a first match, but it does not know how to send symbols from columns > 4. Many of these symbols are usually also mapped to columns 1 - 4. The idea of the proposed patch is not to search in columns > 4. As a result the symbol can be found in columns 1 - 4 (if exists there) or remapped by xkbd to free space in columns 1 - 4.
applied to -r1
