Re: Something odd in XFree86 (unstable)

[David Fokkema <dfokkema@ileos.nl>]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:30:23PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:08:51PM +0100, David Goodenough said
> > Just recently the Alt+<some key> shortcut to get to KDE menu entries
> > stopped working.  I commented on this on the debian-kde list and got the
> > reply that someone had cured it by backout from 4.3.0dfsg.1-5_all to
> > 4.3.0-7_all.  I am unsure which of the various xfree86 packages to
> > raise a bug on.  Is this a known problem and is there hope of a fix?
> 
> It's a known problem, which will be fixed in the next upload of XFree86.
> The cause was xlibs, iirc, so http://bugs.debian.org/xlibs.

It's also this bug (although it seems to be misreported):

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254923

and this is the temporary fix:

    $ xmodmap -e 'clear mod1' -e 'add mod1 = Alt_L'

or you can downgrade xlibs to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4.

HTH,
David

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