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

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





--- Comment #7 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com>  2008-09-10 21:45:29 ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (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.

I'd say that relying on keysyms is the only way to handle keyboard events
properly.

> 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 .

That's apparently a bug in nonchar_key_scan array, it's supposed to match
nonchar_key_vkey, and besides that line is under the /* keypad keys */
comment, which clearly marks where that keys belong to.

> 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).
> From my tests, if the user doesn't mess with xkb, Ubuntu allways generates
> ISO_Level3_Shift when pressing the right alt key. Of course, messing with the
> xkb options can leave he with another keysym for the right alt, for example
> Multi_key (0xff20).

My Ubuntu 7.04 generates XK_Alt_R when I press right Alt key, do you have some
custom xmodmap config, or a keyboard layout manager?


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