Hi Shachar,
thanks for your answer. Dmitry's answer maked me believe to be stupid...
Since I can't rewrite the keyboard detection code and it looks like it is a general XFree 4.3.0 issue, I have to wait for someone to fix it.
Meanwhile, your answer lets me hope that there is a workaround. But I don't understand your answer completely. As I can see, my keyboard configuration (in XF86Config) did not change from 4.2 to 4.3. Could you or anybody give me a hint on how to set XkbLayout/XkbVariant or whatever to get my right alt key working (this is the most important one for me)?
Regards, Tim
I don't know whether it's relevant in this case. XFree 4.3.0 introduced a total disconnection of the different keyboard groups. If before, the IL keyboard contained a US keyboard as the first group, and an IL keyboard as the second group, now I have to define "US,IL" to get the same effect. This is, on the whole, a good thing (even - a very good thing). This does mean that the keyboard detection in wine will now only work if you have your keyboard defined in exactly the same way as the 4.2 keyboards.
I have placed this on my todo list for Wine, but not told anyone so far, as I am extremely busy, and am unlikely to get to it anytime soon. I was hoping someone else picks it up before I do (for those who wonder - I am working on adding Hebrew support to wine, but this quest is causing me now to rewrite the entire choose font dialog, and will probably cause me to address the keyboard detection later on as well, due to keyboard change notification messages).
Shachar