Bug#514053: Broken AltGr Seems to be a Gnome bug

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 22:41:49 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:

> Leaving gdm aside, starting my gnome session from scratch via startx.
> 
> * If I do not have any .Xmodmap around, I get my regular, unmodified
> German keyboard layout, and everything, especially AltGr, is fine.
> * If I then put the .Xmodmap in place and start GNOME, I get the dialog
> which modmap files I want to load. I select mine, and it has the desired
> effect. AltGr still works.
> * If I then log out and in again, and GNOME loads the .Xmodmap file at
> the session start, I do get the effect of the .Xmodmap, but
> additionally, AltGr starts to behave strange.
> 
> Maybe gnome-session-daemon applies the Xmodmap at an unfortunate time of
> the system start?
> 
The difference might also be that in the third case, no key has been
pressed before the modmap is loaded, which could point to some
initialization bug in X.  What happens if you run startx with "xmodmap
$foo; exec /usr/bin/xterm" in ~/.xinitrc?

Cheers,
Julien