problem with keyobord on AIX
Alexander Gottwald
Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Thu Feb 14 14:59:00 GMT 2002
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Harold Hunt wrote:
> > It seems that XWin produce a wrong "state".
IBM has set them wrong. XWin produces the correct ones. Please compare them
with those of Linux.
> > 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'"
Switch of numlock with modmap
xmodmap -e 'keycode 77 = '
and map Alt_Gr to mode_switch
xmodmap -e 'keycode 113 = Mode_switch Multi_key'
bye
ago
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