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Re: xserv 4.3.0-29 Alt Gr Problem is gone
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, hans dot dekker dot ext at juntadeandalucia dot es, xfree86 at xfree86 dot org
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:57:10 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: xserv 4.3.0-29 Alt Gr Problem is gone
- References: <4F698AE6FB425D4A8879766D19E1F929055E1A@win2000.sup-logistik.de><3FF18715.2020808@msu.edu> <3FFEA396.5090404@juntadeandalucia.es>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Hans Dekker wrote:
> Sorry for being persistent, but I guess I have to revisit alt-Gr key
> problem using a Spanish keyboard.
>
> Just tried xserv version 4.3.0-30 (I used the 4.3.0-21 before), and
> starting X-windows in either a xfree bash shell as well as the CDE
> environment xmodmap tells me that I have only 2 definitions per key
> (normal key usage and Shift-key combination). So the Alt-Gr definition
> is not defined for the keys.
I've just tried
$ setxkbmap es
Pressing AltGr + '1' results in '|'
but xmodmap -pke does not print the extra symbols. So this must be a bug
in xmodmap.
For your problem with spanish layout and CDE (which is most likely a
quite old X11 installation) I'd pass you on to xfree86@xfree86.org.
> Xf86Config and the es keyboard map have been modified to define AltGr as
> Mode_Switch. I tried various startup parameters with the XWin
> executable, but no success. I installed xserv 4.3.0-30 over version
> 4.3.0-21 using the Cygwin setup program. It's running in Windows XP.
bye
ago
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