On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:38:56PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:57:58 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 is now in unstable. Do they keys work for > > you now? > > Yes, thank you, I no longer can reproduce the problem where the first > use of Alt, Meta, etc. per login session is ignored. Excellent. > I do still have the problem where in an xterm (but not an Emacs > window) I have to press Alt+Windows to get the effect of Alt. > > Because nobody else appears to be having this latter problem (I got no > response about it on Debian-user), I'm thinking I might just purge all > X packages and reinstall them to see if it goes away. I don't know of > any way my setup is nonstandard, but obviously not everyone is having > the problem. Actually, we know of continuing problems with some of the modifier keys, and we are working to get a good solution in place. It's a lot more complicated than you'd think, and simply reverting the change that was made in -5 has its drawbacks. > If you'd rather I didn't purge/binge, let me know. No, please go ahead if you like. I don't think it will help anything, but it probably won't hurt either. Thanks for following up! -- G. Branden Robinson | Reality is what refuses to go away Debian GNU/Linux | when I stop believing in it. branden@debian.org | -- Philip K. Dick http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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