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Bug 2863

Summary: Keyboard layout not detected because of custom 'xmodmap' mappings.
Product: SDL Reporter: sdlbug
Component: *don't know*Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: WAITING --- QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.0.2   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   

Description sdlbug 2015-02-02 14:03:57 UTC 
I have a slightly customized keyboard layout to make the tab key and some other weird placed keys on my laptop dead:

````
xmodmap -e "keycode 112 = Left"
xmodmap -e "keycode 117 = Right"
````

SDL2.0.2 completely fails to detect the keyboard layout and emits the following message: "Keyboard layout unknown, please send the following to the SDL mailing list"

The keyboard is fully unusable, not a single key is properly recognized.

My current workaround is to make a private build of SDL to force the generic X11 layout in X11_InitKeyboard()
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2016-10-07 23:40:16 UTC 
Can you provide a patch that does that? That seems like reasonable default behavior if we can't detect the keyboard layout.