From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3001 invoked by alias); 24 Dec 2003 21:49:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 2994 invoked from network); 24 Dec 2003 21:49:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sys20.mail.msu.edu) (35.9.75.120) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Dec 2003 21:49:31 -0000 Received: from office.ixn.com ([68.23.74.57] helo=msu.edu) by sys20.mail.msu.edu with asmtp (Exim 4.24 #37) (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1AZGsk-00038f-QF for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:49:30 -0500 Message-ID: <3FEA09E1.2050403@msu.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 05:39:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: XFree86 4.3.0 and AltGr References: <004d01c3ca29$bb5c3cc0$aa03668a@port502pha> <3FE9FC66.7090707@msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3FE9FC66.7090707@msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus: None found by Clam AV X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00373.txt.bz2 List-Id: Okay, XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-29 has just been posted. Please try it and somebody please tell me whether it fixes the problem for them or not. Harold Harold L Hunt II wrote: > 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 >> ********************************************** >> Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique >> Unité Centrale Informatique de Jouy >> Domaine de Vilvert, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas CEDEX, France >> Philippe.Auclair@jouy.inra.fr >> tel +33 1 34 65 26 95, fax +33 1 34 65 24 03 >> ********************************************** >> >> >