[Magic-dev] Re: Magic Troubles

[Philippe Pouliquen]

Hi Tim, Gagi,

Yes, NumLock (which I don't ever use, or I would have seen this when I 
suggested the patch) is also Mod2Mask on Linux/FreeBSD.  Hence, there is 
no way to make vanilla Xorg/Xfree86 systems and MacOSX systems compatible. 
It looks like we will need to revert to the old code and add an #ifdef to 
handle the Mac OS X.

Alternatively, there may be a way to handle this in "configure" by 
synthesizing a key press.  I've never tried this myself, but I seem to 
recall that X windows allows you to fake user interaction with a window.
Of course, this can only work if X windows is running at the time 
configure is run.


> So, (1) if you have some kind of keyboard scanning program (there's one 
> you can probably still get called "xkeycaps"), then maybe you can find 
> out which of the modifier masks is on, and why.

All vanilla X windows installations should come with "xev", so you can try 
that if nothing simpler is available.  Look for the "state" variable. 
(The mapping of state to modifier is defined in X.h.)

Philippe