[Bug 15203] World of Warcraft: Right alt key not working

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15203





--- Comment #5 from Fábio Capela <fabio.capela at yahoo.com>  2008-09-10 11:45:09 ---
(In reply to comment #4)

> Neither Mode_switch nor ISO_Level3_Shift are guaranteed to be generated
> by pressing Right Alt, in fact, it's all keyboard mapping dependent.

The same can be said for XK_Alt_R; relying on keysyms to detect the right alt
key might not be the best way.
Besides, Mode_switch is currently being treated by Wine as the right alt key,
at least so far as the scancode is concerned; see the entry for 0xff7e in the
nonchar_key_scan array, located in dlls/winex11.drv/keyboard.c .

At least under Ubuntu 8.04, XK_Alt_R is not generated from the right alt key in
any of the keyboard layouts I've tested (US, US International, Brazil, and half
a dozen other random layouts); the configuration can be changed to generate it
from the right windows key, but without messing with the shell I couldn't make
it be generated from the right alt key proper. Using it as the only way wine
detects the right alt key leaves this key broken in wine at least under the
current Ubuntu version (unless the user change it himself with the xkb tools),
and possibly under other distros also (almost certainly Debian, maybe others).