From 9da095ca50cc0495f603f916d3382ee28b3cdba3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:54:55 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #1703

---
 kitty/key_names.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kitty/key_names.py b/kitty/key_names.py
index 4fc5775a3..7c9440752 100644
--- a/kitty/key_names.py
+++ b/kitty/key_names.py
@@ -15,10 +15,14 @@ def null_lookup(name, case_sensitive=False):
     def get_key_name_lookup():
         return null_lookup
 else:
-
     def load_libxkb_lookup():
         import ctypes
-        lib = ctypes.CDLL('libxkbcommon.so')
+        for suffix in ('.0', ''):
+            try:
+                lib = ctypes.CDLL('libxkbcommon.so' + suffix)
+                break
+            except Exception:
+                pass
         f = lib.xkb_keysym_from_name
         f.argtypes = [ctypes.c_char_p, ctypes.c_int]
         f.restype = ctypes.c_int