AltGr shortcut combinations not work about awesome HOT 16 CLOSED

You can use xev to look at what keycodes are used / triggered for this.
Do you get Left for AltGr + h there?

You maybe have to map these additionally.

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yes in xev it's work well, all keycodes as i set in xkb layout.

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@blueyed

KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
    root 0x91, subw 0x0, time 149363376, (432,309), root:(434,333),
    state 0x80, keycode 44 (keysym 0xff51, Left), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 113
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
    root 0x91, subw 0x0, time 149363648, (432,309), root:(434,333),
    state 0x80, keycode 108 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 92
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 

so this is xev for AltGr + h, where ISO_Level3_Shift is AltGr and Left is h
keycode 44 is h key
keycode 113 is Left key
constructions with ISO_Level3_Shift like this:

 awful.key({ modkey, "ISO_Level3_Shift"  }, "Left", awful.tag.viewnext ), 
 awful.key({ modkey, "ISO_Level3_Shift"  }, "#113", awful.tag.viewnext ),

not work

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A little hint
https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/blob/master/common/xutil.c#L90

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@Elv13
Nice try, but I still do not understand what kind of modifier AltGr.
I'm still not sure that I can patch it myself, could you tell a little more detail.

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It is not in the list, so I doubt is can work without patching that function and the one below it. I may be wrong

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@Elv13
Ok, i understand. Do you think it's bug? Could you tell me the best way to check this solution without reinstall awesome or distributive? Maybe some install to opt? On Arch Linux

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This is the C code, so you have to patch and recompile. It is not a bug, just not a feature

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@Elv13 i understand, so i can't install it near my awesome like testawesome? Ok i'll try. Thanks.

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You don't have to install awesome, just compile it

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@Elv13 oh, ok, compile and run, you awesome

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@Elv13
Do you think the problem is that awesome does not recognize the modifier and then ignores the key?

I would have thought that it should look just like Left to awesome.

AltGr-h looks like this for me (keycode 43, not 44):

KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x94, subw 0x0, time 150651320, (98,91), root:(99,92),
    state 0x0, keycode 108 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 92
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x94, subw 0x0, time 150652536, (98,91), root:(99,92),
    state 0x80, keycode 43 (keysym 0x2b1, hstroke), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c4 a7) "ħ"
    XmbLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c4 a7) "ħ"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x94, subw 0x0, time 150652687, (98,91), root:(99,92),
    state 0x80, keycode 43 (keysym 0x2b1, hstroke), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c4 a7) "ħ"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x94, subw 0x0, time 150654217, (98,91), root:(99,92),
    state 0x80, keycode 108 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 92
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

And using the following makes awesome somehow grab it, but the function is not called then:

awful.key({ "Any" }, "hstroke",   function (c) put_client(c, 0.5, 0.0, 0.5, 0.5) end),

Without the call to awful.key I get ħ, but with the call nothing arrives in the app (terminal or (g)vim).

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According to a quick google, AlternateGraphic is "Mod5" (2^7), but it doesn't work at all. "Any" work does grab the input and execute the function on my computer. xcb_mod_mask_t doesn't have anything above that, but any grab all until 2^15 so maybe AltGr is somehow mapped to something above the maximum for xcb_mod_mask_t, but that would be very, very strange as it conflict with common sense and other implementations. Your not alone to have trouble with AltGr and XCB:
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-34068?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel
https://awesome.naquadah.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=462

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Using Mod5 works for me:

awful.key({ "Mod5" }, "h", function() naughty.notify({text="AltGr-h"}) end),

@seniorivn
Have you tried this already?

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@blueyed oops...
I tried it just now, and it works, apparently this is exactly what I need, I do not know how it happened that i didn't try it.

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Cool, closing the issue then.

I've looked into xmodmap a bit myself yesterday.

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