World of Warcraft and the Mystery of the Partially Working Key!

Conjurer · 02-17-2010, 05:44 AM

Hi - I run openSUSE 11.2 (kernel 2.6.31.12) and I use Wine 1.1.38 to play World of Warcraft from the konsole terminal application. For the most part this works okay, but there is one small issue that continues to annoy me:

Look at your keyboard (assuming standard QWERTY no-name keyboard) - see the key just left of your Backspace key? That key is only partially working for me in WoW. I cannot bind it to any action bar button in-game, with or without addons enabled. For some reason the key works fine when entering text into the chat console though.

I have used xev to get a bit of data on the key itself - not that it is that informative to me though, but the absence of the issue when playing WoW through Windows would suggest that it is somehow endemic to my Linux configuration:

Code:

KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,
    root 0x1a7, subw 0x0, time 6474080, (159,-10), root:(1364,15),
    state 0x10, keycode 21 (keysym 0xfe51, dead_acute), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c2 b4) "´"
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: True

KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,
    root 0x1a7, subw 0x0, time 6474164, (159,-10), root:(1364,15),
    state 0x10, keycode 21 (keysym 0xfe51, dead_acute), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c2 b4) "´"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Any clues as to what might be the cause of this issue?

10110111 · 02-17-2010, 07:20 AM

Quote:

the key just left of your Backspace key

This is my xev output:

Code:

KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
    root 0x15a, subw 0x0, time 62204195, (175,155), root:(726,572),
    state 0x10, keycode 51 (keysym 0x5c, backslash), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5c) "\"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5c) "\"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
    root 0x15a, subw 0x0, time 62204269, (175,155), root:(726,572),
    state 0x10, keycode 51 (keysym 0x5c, backslash), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5c) "\"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

I don't know why you have dead acute instead of backslash in this position. This should be because of your keyboard layout. Try using default US layout.

Conjurer · 02-17-2010, 07:47 AM

My apologies - I forgot to mention that I use Danish keyboard layout by default. Anyway, switching to US layout did indeed sort out the key in question - at the cost of rearranging characters like [(; etc. and removing the ability to use Danish special characters, such as æ, ø, and å - the loss of these is in itself a nuisance when communicating with other Danish players.
Maybe I will just rearrange my key bindings to keys that work on both platforms :P