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RE: problem with keyobord on AIX
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: "cygx" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:25:04 -0500
- Subject: RE: problem with keyobord on AIX
Fiorenzo,
Don't tell me. Tell the Cygwin/XFree86 mailing list (I have cc'd the
mailing list).
I have pretty much said that I am not going to be working on keyboard
issues. I don't have the time, nor would I derive any benefit from keyboard
code that works better with non-US keyboards or with AIX (because I don't
use either).
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fiorenzo Zanotti [mailto:zanottif@iside.bcc.it]
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:40 PM
> To: huntharo@msu.edu
> Cc: pavel.rybnicek@intax.cz
> Subject: FW: problem with keyobord on AIX
>
>
> hi harold,
>
> I use Xwin to access AIX using an Italian Keyboard.
>
> At logon time one can choose the preferred language.
> Choosing Italian or Czech enable italian or czech keyboard extensions.
>
> I can give you some hints on what is happening on AIX.
>
> I've used "xev" to test the keyboard behaviour.
>
> It seems that XWin produce a wrong "state".
>
> State values reported by xev
>
> Key IBM XWin
> ------ ----- -----
> Shift 0x1 0x1
> Lock 0x2 0x2
> Ctrl 0x4 0x4
> AltL 0x8 0x8
> AltGr 0x10 0x2000
> numLock 0x80 0x10
>
> numlock on XWin produces the same state of ALTGR on IBM.
> This explain why no characters appears when numLock is on.
>
> I use this workaround:
> 1) numLock always off
> 2) after login or in .dtprofile use :
> "xmodmap -e 'keysym Mode_switch = Alt_R'"
>
> Hope this will help.
> hi.
> fiorenzo.
>