<AWT Dev> RFR: JDK-8165232 XKeycodeToKeysym is deprecated and should be replaced with XkbKeycodeToKeysym

Alan Burlison Alan.Burlison at oracle.com
Wed Sep 14 17:42:22 UTC 2016


On 06/09/2016 11:16, Alan Burlison wrote:

> XKeycodeToKeysym is deprecated and when compiled on Solaris 12 with
> warnings-as-errors this causes a compile time failure. References to
> XKeycodeToKeysym should be replaced by XkbKeycodeToKeysym. As this is
> common XOrg code it will affect Linux as well.
>
> Bug:    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8165232
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanbur/JDK-8165232/

I've respun this and replaced the calls to XKeycodeToKeysym with 
equivalent code that uses XGetKeyboardMapping instead. This addresses 
the problem without introducing a dependency on XKEYBOARD, which I think 
is is a better fix.

I'd appreciate any review comments.

Thanks,

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Alan Burlison
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