xserv 4.3.0-29 Alt Gr Problem is gone
Hans Dekker
hans.dekker.ext@juntadeandalucia.es
Thu Jan 15 13:45:00 GMT 2004
Still, what's the solution to defining your keyboard correctly *before*
you start Xwin?.
I guess it must be simple, but probably I oversee some configuration
file or anything similar.
Regards, Hans.
Alexander Gottwald escribió:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Hans Dekker wrote:
>
>
>>Sorry for being persistent, but I guess I have to revisit alt-Gr key
>>problem using a Spanish keyboard.
>>
>>Just tried xserv version 4.3.0-30 (I used the 4.3.0-21 before), and
>>starting X-windows in either a xfree bash shell as well as the CDE
>>environment xmodmap tells me that I have only 2 definitions per key
>>(normal key usage and Shift-key combination). So the Alt-Gr definition
>>is not defined for the keys.
>
>
> I've just tried
>
> $ setxkbmap es
>
> Pressing AltGr + '1' results in '|'
>
> but xmodmap -pke does not print the extra symbols. So this must be a bug
> in xmodmap.
>
> For your problem with spanish layout and CDE (which is most likely a
> quite old X11 installation) I'd pass you on to xfree86@xfree86.org.
>
>
>>Xf86Config and the es keyboard map have been modified to define AltGr as
>>Mode_Switch. I tried various startup parameters with the XWin
>>executable, but no success. I installed xserv 4.3.0-30 over version
>>4.3.0-21 using the Cygwin setup program. It's running in Windows XP.
>
>
> bye
> ago
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