On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 09:23:21AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 21:14, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 16:11, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 13:19, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > On Sun May 04, 2003 at 11:51:52AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] > > > Well, this is interesting. > > > > > > I've been running all my failed tests using the *right* CTRL and > > > ALT keys. > > > > > > When I use the *left* keys, it works like a charm. Why would > > > this be? > > > > That would be because left and right Ctrls and Alts send different > > keycodes, particularly with the right alt and non-English keyboards > > (right alt is often a compose or additional character set key.) > > - Is it documented anywhere that only (L)CTRL-(L)ALT-DEL works? Dunno. I think it is expected behaviour from a big grown-up operating system. DOS treats left and right Alt the same, but Windoze does not, and Linux does not. I think you're supposed to work out that they're not necessarily the same because right Alt is actually labelled "AltGr". ISTR from the last time I looked at the raw codes coming out of the keyboard that left and right Ctrl are the same. > - Can I make it so that either set of CTRL & ALT keys works on my > US English ? Yes, patch your keymap, see my previous post. > - Would that have a deleterious side-affect? I haven't noticed anything not working as a result. Is there anything that actually uses the different code from right Alt? It's all win for me. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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