XFree86 4.3.0 and AltGr

[Michael Lipp]

Hi,

I downloaded cygwin yesterday and stumbled over the not-working AltGr. I 
searched the archives (I emphasize this as it seems you get praised on 
this list for doing so ;-) ) and got some news.

In my case, the problem shows up a bit differently. I have Windows2000 
and no power toys or tweakUI installed (whatever those are). AltGr seems 
to work in general, i.e. if I press AltGr and "+"-key twice, I get a "~" 
(or AltGr-+ and space). So this is what you expect from a keyborad with 
dead keys. XEmacs, however, considers AltGr a real key instead of a 
modified, i.e. every time I press AltGr I get a message about an 
undefined key.

As I want nodeadkeys, I changed XF86Config-4, including the variant 
nodeadkeys. Nothing changed. So I intended to play around with some 
options and in order to avoid restarting the server every time, I 
assembled my "base" command: "xsetxkbmap -rules xfree86 -model pc105 
-layout de -variant nodeadkeys". This is just what's written in my 
XF86Config-4. To my suprise this was it. I.e. after executing this 
command, everything works.

So obviously, xwin is not really configured as stated in XF86Config-4 
after startup.

Regards,

     Michael