Keyboard problem with xfce4

Keyboard problem with xfce4

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

I am trying out the "lightweight desktop system" xfce4 (version 
4.3.99). In xfce4 you can make "launcher icons" on the desktop. 
When I do this for launching dosemu (version 1.3.3.1), the 
keyboard behaves strangely: the E key produces C (and e produces 
c). This only happens when dosemu is started by a "desktop 
launcher"; when it is started from the command line, or from a 
menu, the keyboard behaves normally.

It seems that dosemu is the only program with this keyboard 
problem when started from a "launcher icon".

What sort of bug could this be?

Regards, Jan

Re: Keyboard problem with xfce4

[Bart Oldeman]

On 2/26/07, Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl> wrote:
> I am trying out the "lightweight desktop system" xfce4 (version
> 4.3.99). In xfce4 you can make "launcher icons" on the desktop.
> When I do this for launching dosemu (version 1.3.3.1)

it's hard to see what is 1.3.3.1without a date because it must be some
CVS or SVN snapshot. Can you try again with 1.3.4 or a current SVN
snapshot? There were a few keyboard fixes around October last
year.

Bart

Re: Keyboard problem with xfce4

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

Bart Oldeman wrote:
> On 2/26/07, Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl> wrote:
>> I am trying out the "lightweight desktop system" xfce4
>> (version 4.3.99). In xfce4 you can make "launcher icons" on
>> the desktop. When I do this for launching dosemu (version
>> 1.3.3.1) [..]
> 
> it's hard to see what is 1.3.3.1without a date because it must
> be some CVS or SVN snapshot. Can you try again with 1.3.4 or a
> current SVN snapshot? There were a few keyboard fixes around
> October last year.
> 
> Bart

You are right, my 1.3.3.1 was an SVN shapshot from about last 
summer (compiled with the FM sound patch), and this bug does not 
occur with 1.3.4.

Strange bug though, being dependent on how dosemu is called.

Regards, Jan