2e Try:) Alt-Control doesn't work
I've posted this some days ago, noone reacted so either it went
unnoticed or noone knows. Hoping for the first I retitled it.
Tired of stretching my little finger to reach for the control key I
thought of using my thumb instead, so I defined the right alt key to
function as an extra control key. Very nice typing experience indeed.
Unfortunately alt-control stopped working in some instances, e.g. it
works for alt-control-x, but it fails for alt-control-v :(
And it doesn't matter whether I try this in X with xkeycaps copying
the left Control key onto the right Alt key, or on the console with
the apropriate loadkeys command:
$ loadkeys <<EOF
include "/etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz"
keycode 100 = Control
EOF
To make it easier to discuss this problem I use the following conventions:
Ctrl refers to one of the keys labeled Ctrl,
Alt refers to one of the keys labeled Alt,
CtrlL, CtrlR, AltL, AltR refer to the left/right key labeled Ctrl/Alt,
Control, Meta refer to the resp modifier bit.
Setting things up so that Ctrl and AltR all set the Control bit and
AltL still sets the Meta bit, I get this weird behaviour.
AltL-Ctrl-X gives Meta-Control-X
AltL-AltR-X gives Meta-Control-X
So it seems to work, but...
AltL-Ctrl-V gives Meta-Control-V
AltL-AltR-V gives nothing, nada, nop!
I tried all I could think of and more, but can't make sense out of this.
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groetjes, carel
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