Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ja (156 mails)

["Herrmann.KARC" <herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear *.*

I have finally solved my problem with Japanese character input, 
reported here 2 weeks ago. Since the same problem may happen to other 
users, I will shortly describe the reason and the solution.

For various reasons I had reconfigured my keyboard layout using (among 
others) the following commands in ~/.Xmodmap:

clear mod1
clear mod3
clear mod4
keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode 117 = Mode_switch Meta_R
add mod1 = Meta_L
add mod1 = Meta_R
add mod3 = Alt_L
add mod4 = Mode_switch

In SuSE Linux 8.1 these commands lead to the following modifier 
bindings (see "xmodmap -pm") which looked and worked well:

mod1        Meta_L (0x40) Meta_R (0x75)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3        Alt_L (0x40)
mod4        Mode_switch (0x75)
mod5        Scroll_Lock (0x4e)

But in SuSE Linux 9.0, the "add" command was interpreted in a 
different way, and the modifier bindings became:

mod1        Alt_L (0x40) Mode_switch (0x75)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3        Alt_L (0x40)
mod4        Mode_switch (0x75)
mod5        Scroll_Lock (0x4e)

Obviously, this does not look correct any more because the Alt_L and 
Mode_Switch functions operate several modifier bits each and because 
the mod1 bit is operated by two different functions. Through some 
channels which I do not understand, this lead to a loss of 
information when characters were transferred from kinput/canna to 
KDE-based programs.

Since I have deleted the Meta_L/R entries from my keycode lines and 
deleted the "add mod1" lines, Japanese input is working correctly.

Michael Herrmann