AltGr vs. XFree86 4.3

[Ingvaldur Sigurjónsson <ingi at telia dot com>]

The problem I was having with AltGr on a swedish keyboard layout and 
DECterminal has finally found a workaround.

I received a hint, (described below) that if I'd disabled the XKB 
extenstion in XFree86 and went for the good ol' 'xmodmap' keymap 
loading, I managed to have a workaround.

But other people seem to have similar problems regarding 
AltGr-key-combination with foreign keyboard layouts...

I tried mount the /tmp in binmode without success. My '/' was already 
mounted in binmode and the '/' contained a directory called 'tmp' which 
must have been treated same way as '/tmp'  mounted in binmode.

Regards,

Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson

Ingvaldur.Sigurjonsson@ementor.se wrote:

> I tried this right away and your suggestion worked.
>
> I dont have to load any foreign keyboard (yet...) so I'll go for your suggestion and US keyboard, atleast I get the @,$,{,[,],} characters which are used alot in OpenVMS.
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> Thank you very much for the hint :-)
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> I maybe send an update the Cygwin/XFree86 list with this information if you haven't already done so your self.
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> Regards
>
> - Ingvaldur
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Emmanuel.Dupont<at>alcatel.fr [mailto:Emmanuel.Dupont@alcatel.fr]
> Sent:	Mon 2003-09-22 12:45 PM
> To:	Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson
> Cc:	
> Subject:	AltGr vs. XFree86 4.3
>
> Hello,
> I had got the same problem with HP-UX
> I solved it by first removing the  X Keyboard Extension (look the FAQ) with
> the -kb option
> (try something like :  Xwin -kb or startx -- -kb or xinit -- -kb  )
> And then by loading a french keymap with xmodmap
>
> I didn't try the -keyboard option,  it was boring to continue.
>
> Emmanuel
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