Re: Alt keys in X
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 18:02:07 +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> how old versions? I cant remember one where @ has been working, but then, I
> was using X only since one year.
Back in hamm it did work, I think it broke sometime in slink.
> > is that the Alt keys are configured as Meta by default; putting
> > 'Left/RightAlt ModeShift' into XF86Config fixes the problem. Maybe this
> > could be put into XF86Config.eg, or would that break things for other
> > systems? Well, at the very least this should probably go into the FAQ. :)
> Im not sure if that file could be edited, Branden?
An alternative would be to put something into the system Xmodmap. But
something should IMHO be done; after all the keyboard is supposed to behave
the same in X as in the console.
> I fixed it with an xmodmap entry, see
> http://www.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/myxmodmap
I tried fixing it with xmodmap at first too, but never thought of using mod3.
(Is that documented somewhere? The xmodmap manpage isn't very helpfull.)
> I am pretty sure that I announced it here, when I got it working (not so
> long ago).
Weird, must have missed that somehow...
-Michael
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