Subject: bug#56782: 29.0.50; xkb layers stopped working

From: Joe Corneli <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 08:39:55 +0100

Fix confirmed, thank you!

commit de863f70aa905d3a7feaedb58b65bd7f9776853b (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Po Lu <[email-masked]>

    Remove workaround for some input method problems
    
    * src/xterm.c (handle_one_xevent): Remove modifier key
    workaround for some input method problems, since they cause more
    problems than they fix.  (bug#56782)

Po Lu writes:

> Joe Corneli <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> I have modifiers on the number row of my laptop’s keyboard, e.g.,
>>
>>  key <AE07> {
>>      type= "FOUR_LEVEL",
>>      symbols[Group1]= [     Mode_switch,       ampersand,        NoSymbol,        NoSymbol ]
>>  };
>>  key <AE08> {
>>      type= "FOUR_LEVEL",
>>      symbols[Group1]= [          Meta_R,        asterisk,        NoSymbol,        NoSymbol ]
>>  };
>>
>> and so on.
>>
>> However, Shift+7, Shift+8 (etc.) have stopped working as desired in the
>> most recent Emacs build, although these bindings still work fine in
>> alacritty, Firefox, and other X Windows programs.  (In particular, the
>> binding works as desired in emacs -nw running under Alacritty.)
>
> Should be fixed now.  Thanks.

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