[Mono-winforms-list] Mono hangs after looking up XKeycodeToKeysym

[Adam J. P. Wood]

Please help,

I'm using mono on Linux and trying to run an app which has previously worked 
on windows. I think it is a problem with my Xorg configuration but I can't 
figure it out.

I'm using Gentoo, Xorg 6.8, and Mono 1.1.13

When I start up mono with debugging output the app starts and prints some 
console text. As it tries to open the first window obviously the 
System.Windows.Forms assembly gets loaded and then a lot of lines like the 
following:

Mono-INFO: Searching for 'XGetKeyboardMapping'.
Mono-INFO: Probing 'XGetKeyboardMapping'.
Mono-INFO: Found as 'XGetKeyboardMapping'.
Mono-INFO: DllImport attempting to load: 'libX11.so.6'.
Mono-INFO: DllImport loading location: 'libX11.so.6'.
Mono-INFO: Searching for 'XFree'.
Mono-INFO: Probing 'XFree'.
Mono-INFO: Found as 'XFree'.
Mono-INFO: DllImport attempting to load: 'libX11.so.6'.
Mono-INFO: DllImport loading location: 'libX11.so.6'.
Mono-INFO: Searching for 'XFreeModifiermap'.
Mono-INFO: Probing 'XFreeModifiermap'.
Mono-INFO: Found as 'XFreeModifiermap'.
Mono-INFO: DllImport attempting to load: 'libX11.so.6'.
Mono-INFO: DllImport loading location: 'libX11.so.6'.
Mono-INFO: Searching for 'XKeycodeToKeysym'.
Mono-INFO: Probing 'XKeycodeToKeysym'.
Mono-INFO: Found as 'XKeycodeToKeysym'.

The lines above are the last lines I get and then mono just hangs and starts 
eating cpu time without getting any further. I've since tried other apps and 
they all have the same effect. I can only assume after hours of playing 
around that my keyboard settings are defunct but I don't see how.
Here is a snippet from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I have tried it both with the 
commented lines working and disabled.

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard1"
        Driver      "kbd"
#       Option      "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#       Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
#       Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
#       Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Does anyone have any ideas?

thanks,

Adam Wood