Re: XFree86/Keyboard can't use at-sign

[Daniel Kleine-Albers <dka@dka-edv.de>]

Hello together,

the thing with fn+left alt didn't work, then i get a 3, which is the 
fn-function for the l-key.

I found a "dirty" solution based on siggi's xmodmap proposol. With the 
following xmodmap-file i can write an @ with the little enter key right 
of the space bar on my powerbook keyboard and with the right alt key on 
my external apple pro keyboard. The function of the left alt key (=both 
alt keys on the powerbook keyboard) is left the same.

clear mod1
add mod1 = Alt_L
keycode 108 = Mode_switch
keycode 113 = Mode_switch


If you know a more elegant solution for this issue (without using 
xmodmap - or is it simply not expected that a user want's to write the 
@-sign ??) please let me know.


Thanx so far,
Daniel


On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 10:38 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Mit, 2002-03-13 at 07:11, Daniel Kleine-Albers wrote:
> > this doesn't work for me (i had this in the very beginning) as all the
> > other solutions provided doesn't work for me either.
> > Everything works fine, but i can't write an @ with my keyboard under X
> > (neither with the integrated keyboard of the powerbook g4 nor with an
> > external apple pro keyboard). But i can write the @ in the console.
>
> BTW yesterday a work buddy reminded me of something: fn + left alt =
> right alt. Can you type the special characters with that?
>
>
> > How can i get the keycodes which can be used with xmodmap?
>
> xev
>
>
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