Wierd keymappings and missing Meta
Kirsty Hollingworth
keh112@york.ac.uk
Mon Jan 28 05:13:00 GMT 2002
I have installed Cygwin/Xfree86 according to the instructions. As I live
in the UK I got hold of a Xmodmap for the keymappings. I tried running
% xmodmap Xmodmap.uk
where Xmodmap.uk is the mapping file from a bash prompt. I now get rather
wierd behaviour. In bash windows (and in xterms running telnet to a linux
box) I find that shift-3 sends #CTRL-M so that # is entered to the prompt.
Also my backspace key prints a ~. CTRL-H still backspaces though.
However in xedit everthing works fine. Backspace backspaces and shift-3
prints a pound sign. Any suggestions?
On a similar note (and possibly related) I can't seem to work out what my
Meta key in Xedit is. I've tried pressing the ESC key and sending CTRL-],
CTRL-[ and CTRL-@ before the other keypress. I don't make use of anything
else that needs a Meta key so I haven't tried anything else. This didn't
work before I got hold of a keymapping file and it doesn't work
afterwards.
Any help would be very much appreciated - I only really use cygwin/xfree
as an X display but it doesn't work locally either.
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