AltGr, HP-UX and trouble

Pille Geert (bizvdm) geert.pille@vandemoortele.com
Tue Dec 23 00:40:00 GMT 2003


Hallo JJ,

here you have an xev.c, I had no trouble compiling it on HP/UX 11.

I haven't been able to get the xterm's on HP/UX or AIX to work with AltGr
and dead keys, I'm using xterm from Cygwin/X and rlogin to the HP/UX box
(which is not really BIG - physically).

Geert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonas Jonsson [mailto:Jonas.Jonsson@alcesys.se]
> Sent: vrijdag 19 december 2003 11:02
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: AltGr, HP-UX and trouble
> 
> 
> Here we go again, I know this question has been up asked 
> quite a few times but
> I still *MUST* get a solution to this problem. I've attached 
> relevant files
> (AFAIK).
> 
> In short:
> 
> I have a normal swedish keyboard, pc105, and all apropriate 
> things set in
> /etc/X11/XF86Config.
> 
> In the Cygwin-environment, everything works fine, all keys 
> that should work
> seems to work. Emacs have no dead keys, ie I can write {}[]@ 
> usd-sign etc.
> 
> So, I logon to the BIG HP-UX-server running somewhere, via 
> "telnet -8", and in
> the shell, everything works fine.
> But from that telnet (or actually the xterm-window) I start a 
> new xterm-window
> (running HP-UX xterm). All of a sudden, {}[] etc don't work 
> in the new window
> (Since AltGr doesn't seem to work).
> Worst of all, the quite important characters that I want to 
> be able to type in
> Emacs (started on the HP-UX machine) is not possible to type. 
>  (Well, if I run
> emacs -nw in the xterm-window, the }][{-keys work, but that's 
> not how I wanna
> use emacs.)
> This gives me problems, since I'm programming C/C++ on that 
> very HP-UX machine
> :-D
> 
> Then, I load this xmodmap.se-file, and the keys start working 
> in the (remote)
> xterm-window, but Emacs still refuse to read the AltGr-key ....
> 
> Finally, xev isn't available on the HP-UX machine :-O
> 
> Where do I find source for xev, and a makefile that allows me 
> to run it
> without installing it?
> 
> What's wrong here??
> 
> --
> Jonas Jonsson, Alcesys AB
> mail: Jonas.Jonsson@alcesys.se
> tel : 0733 - 96 13 13
> web : http://www.alcesys.se
> 
> 



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