The loss of ctrl+alt+F# and ctrl+alt+backspace seems greater than the benefit of usable level-0 keysyms.

Perhaps this is more appropriate as a patch.
Or perhaps mergingsevz17/keycodes would be preferable.

The loss of ctrl+alt+F# and ctrl+alt+backspace seems greater than the benefit of usable level-0 keysyms.

This is mostly to match dwm behavior but you're right make it usable would require more work (I'm not sure if it's suitable change to XKB_KEY_F# and XKB_KEY_BackSpace)

Perhaps this is more appropriate as a patch. Or perhaps mergingsevz17/keycodes would be preferable.

I have no plans to merge keycodes, (get dwm's folks to use keycodes and I will merge it)

https://github.com/djpohly/dwl/compare/main...dimkr:dwl:en-keycodes.patch makes key bindings work when using a non-English layout, and it should be a backward-compatible change.

@sevz17 Would you consider this patch? (Not a replacement for this PR, of course)

Sorry but no. parity with dwm is one of our goals (that's why I won't merge keycodes) and dwm doesn't (and I think it can't) use a specific keymap to handle keybindings