Following discussion on the portable-clx mailing list (CLX is a Common Lisp implementation of the X client protocol) it is suspected that there is an X server bug. The details of the configuration in question are at <URL:http://lists.metacircles.com/pipermail/portable-clx/2004-October/000056.html> (I don't understand xkb, but I believe the relevant part is 'adding xkb "type=TWO_LEVEL" for the BKSP key') and the results yield by XGetKeyboardMapping become bogus. This bug report may be two bugs, because the C Xlib bindings hide this problem by calling KeyCodetoKeySym for each entry in the keyboard mapping, rather than trusting the server's response to XGetKeyboardMapping; while this is possibly more robust, it increases the number of server round trips.
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys. Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Christophe Rhodes Do you still experience this issue with newer soft ? Please check the status of your issue.
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