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Bug#241923: xbase-clients: Unable to figure out xmodmap syntax after heaving read the manpage several times



Package: xbase-clients
Version: 4.1.0-16
Severity: important
File: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap

Hi!

The xmodmap's manpage is unclear, vague, and confusing, to say the
least.  I don't understand e.g. what the keysym columns are for--in one
place, the manpage reads:

| The  first keysym is used when no modifier key is pressed in conjunction
| with this key, the second with Shift, the third when the Mode_Switch key
| is used with this key and the fourth when both the Mode_Switch and Shift
| keys are used.

But further on, I learned that:

| [A]pplications that need a Meta key simply need to get  the keycode  and
| don't  require  the  keysym  to  be in the first column of the keymap
| table.  This means that applications that are looking for a Multi_key
| (including the default modifier map) won't notice any change.
| 
| 	%  xmodmap -e "keysym Multi_key = Multi_key Meta_L"

What the h*** is this?

Yours Completely Confused,
Jan.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux kontryhel 2.4.20 #1 SMP Sun Dec 15 01:30:10 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii  cpp                      2:2.95.4-14     The GNU C preprocessor.
ii  debconf                  1.0.32          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                    2.2.5-11.2      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdps1                  4.1.0-16        Display PostScript (DPS) client li
ii  libfreetype6             2.0.9-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libxaw7                  4.1.0-16        X Athena widget set library
ii  mesag3-glide2 [libgl1]   3.4.2.1-4       A 3-D graphics library which uses 
ii  xlibs                    4.1.0-16        X Window System client libraries


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