XKeysymDB missing in libx11-data

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Binary package hint: libx11-data

The file XKeysymDB is missing. This causes problems with (old) lesstif applications.

[Thomas E. Horner (thomas.horner)]

seems to affect several motif applications (like sun secure global desktop, etc.)
keyboard input is not possible in those apps
not too easy to find out the root cause (might be impossible for many users)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

It was removed in upstream commit eb023c0f8919e:

Author: Daniel Stone <daniel fooishbar.org>
Date: Tue Jun 15 18:49:43 2010 +0100

    Delete now-redundant XKeysymDB

    Since XStringToKeysym now supports all the vendor keysyms, just delete
    our XKeysymDB, which was incomplete at best, misleading at worst, and
    always an annoyance.

    Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniel fooishbar.org>
    Reviewed-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith oracle.com>

it would be trivial to add it back, but maybe there is another way to fix the apps.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

I got the 'ttatcc' binary from SSGD 4.50.907, and it's accepting input on natty just fine. Thomas, what version did you use?

[anatoly techtonik (techtonik)]

XKeysymDB is referenced in community wiki https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultimediaKeys#In-depth_instructions These instructions should be updated then.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Closing the bug. Feel free to update the community docs.