[Bug 244290] x11-wm/xfce4 does not see up arrow after reinstall

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--- Comment #45 from Samy Mahmoudi <samy.mahmoudi at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Jethro Nederhof from comment #44)
> Yes, thanks for clarifying it's just the first keypress, you had me worried there!
You're welcome.

> I suspect the issue not appearing with display managers is because the first keypress happens there and triggers the keymap update before XFCE loads, which makes it work correctly as in the initial workaround with setxkbmap (skipping this with autologin avoids this).
Your explanation makes sense and unifies the two workarounds (using
setxkbmap/using a display manager).

So I think there's a different issue with xorg initially detecting the wrong
keymap until first keypress.
> With all the mess that results from recent changes in Xorg, I can only agree :-)

> Compiz may just not handle the keymap updating? Not sure.
I could not do compiz-specific tests previously because x11-wm/ccsm has been
removed from the ports tree due to Python 2 deprecation, and I did not want to
lose time on resurrecting it because I was working on porting Compiz Reloaded.
I have just finished porting Compiz Reloaded to FreeBSD (committed upstream in
summer 2018 and in May/June 2020) so I was able to test a bit today: compiz
triggers desktop switches on CTRL+ALT+AN_ARROW_KEY if and only if one of the
workarounds is applied (using setxkbmap/using a display manager). I don't know
what conclusion to draw but I will definitely wait for an Xorg fix before
coming back to this, as my environment is now fully functional again.

> Hope this helps!
Yes it does, thank you Jethro.

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