Re: XFree86 4.3.0 and AltGr

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>]

I believe I have found just the right amount of magic to fix this once 
and for all.  Please stay tuned to test the new release.

Harold

Philippe Auclair wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Gosh, what an exciting thread about "Proper attribution of patches"!
> 
> Now, to the point... As many Europeans, as Michael Lipp said, "I stumbled
> over the not-working AltGr" (I have a French keyboard, and a Windows XP
> box).
> 
> After various unsuccessful tries with XF86Config, I had a good look at the
> results of xev. The xev downloaded with Cygwin XFree, and xev on Sun Solaris
> give similar results: when I press the single key AltGr, xev says:
> KeyPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0xc00001,
>     root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 2826093, (105,60), root:(899,527),
>     state 0x10, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 characters:  ""
> 
> KeyPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0xc00001,
>     root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 2826093, (105,60), root:(899,527),
>     state 0x14, keycode 113 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen
> YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 characters:  ""
> 
> I then tried xmodmap with the following commands:
> clear Mod5
> keycode 113 = Mode_switch
> add Mod3 = Mode_switch
> 
> -> result when pressing AltGr: keycode 37 (Control_L) + keycode 113
> (Mode_switch)
> 
> Of course, xterm or emacs don't understand... OK, well is there an unused
> key at the bottom of the keyboard?
> XFree doesn't see the "Windows " key at all, but I have a key which, when
> pressed in a Windows application, does the same as right click. xev sees
> this key as keycode 101. So I feed this into xmodmap:
> clear Mod5
> keycode 101 = Mode_switch
> add Mod3 = Mode_switch
> keycode 10 = ampersand 1
> keycode 11 = eacute 2 asciitilde
> keycode 12 = quotedbl 3 numbersign
> keycode 13 = apostrophe 4 braceleft
> keycode 14 = parenleft 5 bracketleft
> keycode 15 = minus 6 bar
> keycode 16 = egrave 7 grave
> keycode 17 = underscore 8 backslash
> keycode 18 = ccedilla 9 asciicircum
> keycode 19 = agrave 0 at
> keycode 20 = parenright degree bracketright
> keycode 21 = equal plus braceright
> 
> Bingo! xterm and emacs work!  Except I use this odd key instead of AltGr,
> which I *REALLY* would prefer.
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> Philippe Auclair
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