Re: Still having lots of trouble with Alt/Meta keys

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 03:00:27PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
[...]
> Without metaSendsEscape alt-b generates an accented a.  I turn on
> altwin:meta_win:
> 
> shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
> lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
> control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
> mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_L (0x7d)
> mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
> mod3
> mod4        Meta_L (0x73),  Meta_R (0x74),  Super_L (0x7f),  Hyper_L (0x80), Meta_L (0x9c)
> mod5        Mode_switch (0x5d),  ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c)
> 
> Now neither alt-b nor windows-b produces any effect.

This is already fixed in SVN.  I sent a patch to upstream which has
been accepted, but it has side effects and needs to be reverted.
The bogus patch is
  http://bugzilla.xfree86.org/attachment.cgi?id=1197
and has to be (un)applied against /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/altwin.

> I can't reproduce all of these results in another server with GNOME and
> Metacity running - specifically, with mod1 cleared, Alt-b generates "b"
> instead of the accented "a".  I assume that's either GNOME or Metacity
> somehow eating the modifier.  Right now I don't care.  It's the keyboard
> cursor movement that I need.

There are other issues with Metacity (#272208), see #271542 for
some ideas on how to solve these bugs.

Denis