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Re: Problems with X 4.3.0



On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 08:43:17AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 11 Apr 2004, Pigeon wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:45:50AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > I have to admit to relying on xkeycaps to do what I want (mainly convert
> > > Caps Lock to Escape and make both Alt keys work the same).
> >                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > ...care to post your method? I've fiddled with xmodmap to achieve this
> > and achieved partial success, in X 4.1.0 (I can switch to a VC with
> > Ctrl-either Alt-F<n>, but Alt-left-mouse to drag a window in blackbox
> > has to be left-Alt). What's really annoying is I did it with xkeycaps
> > on another machine but I'm buggered if I can remember how...						  
> > 
> > -- 
> 
> I did it quite simply, by clicking on Escape with the right mouse
> button, selecting duplicate, and then clicking on Caps Lock. I did a
> similar thing with the Alt keys. But you could also do it manually; in
> my xmodmap I have:
> 	
> keycode 0x42 =  Escape
> 
> keycode 0x71 =  Alt_L
> 
> You can get the actual keycode values for your keyboard from xkeycaps.
> 
> The only thing I've found with xkeycaps is that choosing  to save just
> the altered keys doesn't produce a valid xmodmap; you have to save all
> the keys.

Oh dear, that's the same as what I've got... never mind, thanks anyway!

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