AltGr vs. XFree86 4.3

Ingvaldur Sigurjónsson ingi@telia.com
Mon Sep 22 21:17:00 GMT 2003


The problem I was having with AltGr on a swedish keyboard layout and 
DECterminal has finally found a workaround.

I received a hint, (described below) that if I'd disabled the XKB 
extenstion in XFree86 and went for the good ol' 'xmodmap' keymap 
loading, I managed to have a workaround.

But other people seem to have similar problems regarding 
AltGr-key-combination with foreign keyboard layouts...

I tried mount the /tmp in binmode without success. My '/' was already 
mounted in binmode and the '/' contained a directory called 'tmp' which 
must have been treated same way as '/tmp'  mounted in binmode.

Regards,

Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson

Ingvaldur.Sigurjonsson@ementor.se wrote:

>I tried this right away and your suggestion worked.
>
>I dont have to load any foreign keyboard (yet...) so I'll go for your suggestion and US keyboard, atleast I get the @,$,{,[,],} characters which are used alot in OpenVMS.
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>Thank you very much for the hint :-)
>
>I maybe send an update the Cygwin/XFree86 list with this information if you haven't already done so your self.
>
>Regards
>
>- Ingvaldur
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Emmanuel.Dupont<at>alcatel.fr [mailto:Emmanuel.Dupont@alcatel.fr]
>Sent:	Mon 2003-09-22 12:45 PM
>To:	Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson
>Cc:	
>Subject:	AltGr vs. XFree86 4.3
>
>Hello,
>I had got the same problem with HP-UX
>I solved it by first removing the  X Keyboard Extension (look the FAQ) with
>the -kb option
>(try something like :  Xwin -kb or startx -- -kb or xinit -- -kb  )
>And then by loading a french keymap with xmodmap
>
>I didn't try the -keyboard option,  it was boring to continue.
>
>Emmanuel
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