Re: more alt key questions
64 and 113
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:16:35PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> Lo, on Saturday, April 6, Bob Thibodeau did write:
>
> > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:32:59PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:09:00AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote:
> > > > I just went back through the archives to questions I thought
> > > > would help. They did, but for a different problem ( which
> > > > I wasn't having).
> > > >
> > > > I used to have a 'meta' key in Emacs. I also used to do
> > > > Ctrl-A, Alt-d in xterms to erase a command. Now my alt
> > > > key doesn't affect the letters at all (alt-x prints 'x').
> > > >
> > > > I can still Ctrl-Alt-Fx to switch consoles and
> > > > Alt-TAB switches windows in Icewm.
> > >
> > > Could it be that your window manager thinks alt keys are for him?
> >
> > I tried without a window manager with the same same results.
> > No menu, of course, but no effect from the alt keys.
>
> First step: see what keysym your alt keys are generating. Run xev (from
> the xbase-clients package), make sure the new window has focus, and hit
> both alt keys. If you want the plastic bump labeled `alt' on your
> keyboard to act as meta in emacs, then you should see something like the
> following:
>
> KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001,
> root 0x31, subw 0x0, time 223019973, (56,121), root:(810,145),
> state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe7, Meta_L), same_screen YES,
> XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
>
> KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001,
> root 0x31, subw 0x0, time 223020047, (56,121), root:(810,145),
> state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe7, Meta_L), same_screen YES,
> XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
>
> KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001,
> root 0x31, subw 0x0, time 223020300, (56,121), root:(810,145),
> state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffe8, Meta_R), same_screen YES,
> XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
>
> KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001,
> root 0x31, subw 0x0, time 223020366, (56,121), root:(810,145),
> state 0x8, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffe8, Meta_R), same_screen YES,
> XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
>
> If you see different keysyms, then your X keyboard settings are off.
> Check your X server configuration file or use xmodmap(1) or xkeycaps to
> adjust this.
>
> If you don't see any events in response to you hitting the Alt keys,
> then something (probably your window manager) is intercepting the keys
> before it gets to the server. Adjust your WM config. (Based on your
> description above, though, I don't think this is happening.)
>
> HTH,
>
> Richard
Events are received, 64 and 113.
Bob
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