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    xkb: after changing the keymap, force an indicator update · ac164e58
    Peter Hutterer authored and Adam Jackson's avatar Adam Jackson committed
    When NumLock is on and a new keymap is applied, the next modifier state
    change will turn off that LED (but leave the state enabled). The cause
    for this is a bit convoluted:
    
    * the SLI explicitState is copied from the current state in
      ProcXkbGetKbdByName. Thus, if NumLock is on, that state is 0x2.
    * on the next modifier key press (e.g. Shift), XkbApplyState() calls into
      XkbUpdateIndicators() -> XkbUpdateLedAutoState() to update SLIs (if any)
      for the currently changed modifier. But it does so with a mask only for
      the changed modifier (i.e. for Shift).
    * XkbUpdateLedAutoState() calculates the state based on this mask and
      ends up with 0 because we don't have a Shift LED and we masked out the
      others.
    * XkbUpdateLedAutoState() compares that state with the previous state
      (which is still 0x2) and then proceeds to turn the LED off
    
    This doesn't happen in the normal case because either the mask
    encompasses all modifiers or the state matches of the masked-out
    modifiers matches the old state.
    
    Avoid this issue by forcing an SLI update after changing the keymap.
    This updates the sli->effectiveState and thus restores everything to
    happy working order.
    
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047151
    
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
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