bug#65068: 29.1; xkb-interception interaction causes problems with key combinations

["Alexander Prähauser" <alexander.praehauser@gmx.at>]

So, what should I do next?

Alexander Prähauser [2023-08-19 Sat 15:35] wrote:

> After I couldn't resolve the keyboard issue I reinstalled an old
> binary version from the Arch archives but I've now
> downloaded the Emacs source files and tried to apply the patch 
> in that
> local directory. However, I get the error
> message:
>
>> [alex@Archlaptop emacs]$ git apply -
>> diff --git a/src/xterm.c b/src/xterm.c
>> index 6a1642ff56e..a199bae9f16 100644
>> --- a/src/xterm.c
>> +++ b/src/xterm.c
>> @@ -23886,6 +23886,9 @@ handle_one_xevent (struct 
>> x_display_info
>> *dpyinfo,
>>  		  if (!XkbTranslateKeyCode (dpyinfo->xkb_desc,
>> keycode,
>>  					    xkb_state, &mods_rtrn,
>> &keysym))
>>  		    goto XI_OTHER;
>> +
>> +		  fprintf (stderr, "keycode: %d, keysym: %d, 
>> %u\n",
>> keycode,
>> +			   (int) keysym, state);
>>  		}
>>  	      else
>>  		{
>> error: patch failed: src/xterm.c:23886
>> error: src/xterm.c: patch does not apply
>
> I tried again after compiling Emacs with make and got the same
> error. I didn't install that Emacs version though so not
> to overwrite my current one. If necessary I can install a
> source-compiled Emacs version on another system though, but I
> wanted to ask before if that might be useful.
>
> Po Lu [2023-08-17 Thu 12:41] wrote:
>
>> Alexander Prähauser <alexander.praehauser@gmx.at> writes:
>>
>>> It says
>>>
>>>> error: src/xterm.c: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> I also can't find xterm.c on my system, though I have xterm
>>> installed.
>>
>> Did you run that within the Git repository where your Emacs 
>> checkout
>> resides?
>>
>> src/xterm.c is an Emacs source file.