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vesath

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Upgrade libev-3.80-1 breaks awesome hotkeys for xterm

Hi,

I've just upgraded to libev-3.80-1 and now the default key assigned to kill() in awesome's rc.lua (meta+shift+c) produces no effect against an xterm or an urxvt - it does however work against an aterm and firefox. Actually, this is independent of the key assigned, and affects all calls in the "clientkeys" section.
Weird...

Anyhow, downgrading to libev-3.60-2 fixes this issue:
  http://arm.kh.nu/community/os/i686/libe … pkg.tar.gz

Profjim

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 658

Re: Upgrade libev-3.80-1 breaks awesome hotkeys for xterm

Which version of awesome are you using? awesome-git?

vesath

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: Upgrade libev-3.80-1 breaks awesome hotkeys for xterm

Which version of awesome are you using? awesome-git?

The version that's in community: awesome-3.3.1-1

Profjim

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-03-24

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Re: Upgrade libev-3.80-1 breaks awesome hotkeys for xterm

If you want to use the newer libev, you could try rebuilding the awesome package you're using from source. Do you know how to use abs and makepkg? You could bump the version of awesome you're using from 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3 while you're at it.

If that doesn't work, then I guess there were changes to libev that the release version of awesome doesn't yet properly deal with. You could try installing awesome-git from aur, but note that this is much less stable. (Depending on what day you install it, it may or may not break for you.)

vesath

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: Upgrade libev-3.80-1 breaks awesome hotkeys for xterm

Thanks for the tip; I won't, however, be able to try soon - maybe next week.

vesath

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: Upgrade libev-3.80-1 breaks awesome hotkeys for xterm

Actually, the whole issue has just been fixed with the upgrade to awesome-3.3.3-1; thanks again!