[Xquartz-dev] dead keys - page up & down, end & home

[Christof Wolf]

On Thursday 02 April 2009, xquartz-dev-request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:
> Interesting.  What application are you trying?  I use Home/End  
> extensively within urxvt/bash to goto the front/end of the current  
> input line.  I see it working fine there.  Can you please test by  
> running 'xev'?  With the xev window in focus, it should output data  
> about the input events it receives to stdout.  Try pressing Home/End/
> PgUp/PgDn and see what happens.

Jeremy,

I pressed the keys in following order: up, down, right left and I got,

KeymapNotify event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   

KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x1fd, subw 0x0, time 1736001738, (122,-8), root:(225,247),
    state 0x0, keycode 134 (keysym 0xff52, Up), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 85
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x1fd, subw 0x0, time 1736001898, (122,-8), root:(225,247),
    state 0x0, keycode 134 (keysym 0xff52, Up), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 85
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x1fd, subw 0x0, time 1736003122, (122,-8), root:(225,247),
    state 0x0, keycode 133 (keysym 0xff54, Down), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 80
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x1fd, subw 0x0, time 1736003274, (122,-8), root:(225,247),
    state 0x0, keycode 133 (keysym 0xff54, Down), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 80
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x1fd, subw 0x0, time 1736003954, (122,-8), root:(225,247),
    state 0x0, keycode 132 (keysym 0xff53, Right), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 74
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x1fd, subw 0x0, time 1736004090, (122,-8), root:(225,247),
    state 0x0, keycode 132 (keysym 0xff53, Right), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 74
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x1fd, subw 0x0, time 1736005050, (122,-8), root:(225,247),
    state 0x0, keycode 131 (keysym 0xff51, Left), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 78
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x1fd, subw 0x0, time 1736005202, (122,-8), root:(225,247),
    state 0x0, keycode 131 (keysym 0xff51, Left), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 78
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

FocusOut event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    mode NotifyNormal, detail NotifyNonlinear

ciao
christof

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