2e Try:) Alt-Control doesn't work

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl>]

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.


-- 
groetjes, carel


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