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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:55:04 +0100
From:      Jakob Alvermark <jakob@alvermark.net>
To:        Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>, x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 'End' key stopped working (xfce)
Message-ID:  <43713fc4-ea9b-1e77-0bb7-5b3f20ff3900@alvermark.net>
In-Reply-To: <3c4f405b-2bb9-105d-5ba8-6949112fcb31@madpilot.net>
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On 1/26/21 11:01 AM, Guido Falsi wrote:
> On 26/01/21 10:45, Jakob Alvermark wrote:
>>
>> On 1/21/21 9:25 AM, Guido Falsi wrote:
>>> On 21/01/21 09:10, Jakob Alvermark wrote:
>>>> On 1/21/21 8:54 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 08:49:39AM +0100, Jakob Alvermark wrote:
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> Something strange is going on here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I changed one shortcut, next time I restarted xfce my up-arrow key
>>>>>> doesn't work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I changed one shortcut without restarting xfce and the up-arrow 
>>>>>> works
>>>>>> again...
>>>>> You might find reading the discussion in the following bugzilla PR
>>>>> useful (esp. comment #54): https://bugs.freebsd.org/244290.
>>>>>
>>>>> ./danfe
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the suggestion, applying the change suggested in #54 
>>>> seems to have fixed the issue.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What change exactly? If there is a change that reliably mitigates 
>>> the issue it could be included in the ports tree, but I'm not sure I 
>>> understand what to change exaclty.
>>>
>>> It looks like removing the "ungrab" code line causes other 
>>> regressions, so I'm not sure is a good candidate.
>>
>>
>> The change that worked was adding back the ungrab line that was 
>> removed in that commit.
>>
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> If that change really works for most users it's a good candidate for 
> inclusion in the ports tree. I'd also try to get it back upstream.
>
> I followed up to bug 244290 about this.
>
> But since I'm not experiencing the issue myself I can't test this. So 
> I'm asking for consensus from users.
>

By chance I discovered that it seems it only happens when you have UDEV 
option on xorg-server.

(Which I do. Tracking -current all pkgs was upgraded when -current was 
bumped to 14, and the binary package of xorg-server does not have udev 
enabled)


Jakob




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