On 28 February 2016 at 23:05, Hendrik Tews <hendrik.t...@fireeye.com> wrote:
> The XKEYBOARD doc clearly say, no Xkb function should be called
> if the server does not provide XKEYBOARD. And indeed, inside
> vnc4server, XkbKeycodeToKeysym does always return 0. (I attach a
> small test program that shows this behavior.) Inside the loop in
> AddBinding (file libs/Binding.c) this causes all key bindings to
> be dropped.

So?  There is nothing FVWM can do about this.  Nor should it.  If you
really don't want to use XKB at all with FVWM, then you can undefine
'HAVE_X11_XKBLIB_H' -- which will force FVWM to use
XKeycodeToKeysym().

> As conclusion, there are the following solutions to this problem:
>
> - downgrade to Debian fvwm 2.5.30 (as suggested by Claude)
>   because this uses XKeycodeToKeysym

No.  See suggestion above.

> - compile fvwm without the offending patch, for instance the

No.  Just use CVS.  Oh, and see above.

-- Thomas Adam

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