Jeff Abrahamson on Wed, 8 May 2002 09:50:13 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] sed help


Note also the ability of xkeycaps to help you figure these things out
experimentally. My work machine comes up with a bad delete key. I've
never gotten it fixed properly in the startup scripts, but I can fix
it in a few seconds with xkeycaps, and the X server only restarts once
every four to six months (due to power outages or other maintenance
things in the building).

-Jeff


On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:10:31AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:59:49AM -0400, Samantha wrote:
> > I tried to map the Alt Key to a Meta Key using xmodmap:
> > xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L"
> 
> Why? XF86 should do this for you.
> 
> Oh, wait, maybe that's just a default in my world. In your
> XF86Config's Keyboard section, you want:
> 
>     LeftAlt     Meta
>     RightAlt    ModeShift
> 
> ... or whatever you think's appropriate.
> 
> (Check the relevant man pages, of course.)
> 
> You'll need to restart X after doing so.
> 
> > So I held down the left Alt key so I could type "high_ASCII" and when I 
> > hit keys, nothing appears.Why?
> 
> What are your environment settings for LANG and LC_CTYPE? This
> should only affect display, not your ability to type the keys. I've
> got a feeling your xmodmap changes were either unnecessary or
> ineffective.
> 
> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net



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 Jeff

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