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X Windows, AltGr, and Mode_switch

I have an application that detects and uses the AltGr key by assuming that mod2 is assigned to the AltGr key. This seems to work fine in most cases, as it is easy to make this the case in X Windows by using Xmodmap. However, I have noticed a strange

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Motif and Slackware 13.1

Unfortunately, there is a bug in X Windows that ships with Slackware64 13.1 which can cause programs which expect a certain behavior in X.org to freeze up. It's quite unpleasant. Fortunately, there is a patch that fixes the problem quite nicely. Here's the patch