Gtk2::Gdk::Keysyms - different platforms

[Mario Kemper <mario kemper googlemail com>]

Hi all,

I am doing some custom key handling in one of my programs. I am using
Gtk2::Gdk::Keysyms for deciphering keycodes in key events, but the
problem is that the keysyms differ on some platforms, e.g. ArchLinux:

perldoc -m Gtk2::Gdk::Keysyms

generated from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkkeysyms.h
package Gtk2::Gdk::Keysyms;
%Gtk2::Gdk::Keysyms = (
   'KEY_VoidSymbol' => 0xffffff,
   'KEY_BackSpace' => 0xff08,
   'KEY_Tab' => 0xff09,
   'KEY_Linefeed' => 0xff0a,
   'KEY_Clear' => 0xff0b,
   'KEY_Return' => 0xff0d,
   'KEY_Pause' => 0xff13,
   'KEY_Scroll_Lock' => 0xff14,
   'KEY_Sys_Req' => 0xff15,
   'KEY_Escape' => 0xff1b,
   'KEY_Delete' => 0xffff,
   'KEY_Multi_key' => 0xff20,
   'KEY_Codeinput' => 0xff37,
   'KEY_SingleCandidate' => 0xff3c,
   'KEY_MultipleCandidate' => 0xff3d,
   'KEY_PreviousCandidate' => 0xff3e,
   'KEY_Kanji' => 0xff21,
   'KEY_Muhenkan' => 0xff22,
   'KEY_Henkan_Mode' => 0xff23,
   'KEY_Henkan' => 0xff23,



On Ubuntu and most other distributions it is 'Escape' => 0xff1b instead
of 'KEY_Escape' => 0xff1b.


This means that the example here
http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/pod/Gtk2/Gdk/Keysyms.html does not
work as well under ArchLinux.

Can anyone please shed some light on this.

Regards
Mario