Bug#227578: xmodmap and Mode_switch, ISO_Level3_Shift
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 05:29:50PM +0200, Nils Radtke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just read about your posts. They're two months old, now.
> But symptoms show up as 2 months ago, and I suspect the *kbd* subsystem
> buggy as well..
> Perhaps we do all not capture quite well how the whole stuff works.. ;)
>
> xmodmap is included in xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1
> Linux tadpole 2.6.12tf #1 Wed Jun 22 20:15:20 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
[...]
> But none of the ?acute symbols does work. The 5th and 6th columns
> instead is working as Xavier already stated before.
> -> 3rd and 4th columns do not work.
>
> If I enable section (1) then the ouput of i. e. Alt+i is "i". This is
> not what it was intended to print..
>
> But: Using left Alt (Alt_L)+a (i. e.) I get aacute, but apparently not
> from what I configured as Alt+i gives me eacute instead of the
> configured iacute. Now, the question is, where does this damn aacute at
> Alt+a and eacute at Alt+i (and others as well, i. e. at Alt+q I get
> ntilde)???
> None of the included xkb-definitions in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/*
> does define them at these positions (did I overlook something?).
If you want to use xmodmap, add
Option "XkbDisable" "true"
in your X config file to disable XKB.
Denis
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