Re: XFree86 4.3.0 and AltGr

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

Can somebody confirm for me whether or not this fixes the AltGr problems 
for them with TweakUI?

Harold

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> 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
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>>>
>>>
>>
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