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

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:26:52PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> 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.

Thanks a lot!  I saw this when I was going through the bug logs, but I
thought it already had been.  If I unapply that patch, Windows-b
correctly produces escape-b in my xterm again.

> > 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.

Thanks.  I'll leave that to someone else, since I mostly needed Meta.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz