Re: "at" character in X (different behaviour in Gnome and KDE-session)
On Mit, 2002-04-03 at 21:20, Niklaus Giger wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3. April 2002 19.01, Daniel Kleine-Albers
> >
> > 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
> Thank you for the tip. I had the same problem.
>
> But I use keycode 116 = Mode_switch to use my right
> apple-key like AltGr on IBM-PC-keyboard.
>
> I have a external USB Apple extended keyboard (which show
> us up like input1: Alps Electric?M2452 M2452 on usb1:6.0 in
> dmesg output).
>
> Curiously enough I only have to call this xmodmap if I am
> using KDE, not in a gnome-session. I do not know what is
> going on there. In both session I set the keyboard type to
> Swiss German.
>
> If you I knew what package is at fault I would post a bug
> report ...
I suspect KDE messes with the keyboard settings (maybe you can change
that somewhere in the control center though?), while GNOME doesn't seem
to touch them by default.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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