From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2621 invoked by alias); 29 Dec 2003 19:38:08 -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 2602 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2003 19:38:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sys23.mail.msu.edu) (35.9.75.123) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Dec 2003 19:38:07 -0000 Received: from office.ixn.com ([68.23.74.57] helo=msu.edu) by sys23.mail.msu.edu with asmtp (Exim 4.24 #37) (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1Ab3DL-0000hJ-Cn for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:38:07 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF0829D.7010502@msu.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:07:00 -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> <3FEA09E1.2050403@msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3FEA09E1.2050403@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/msg00399.txt.bz2 List-Id: 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 >>> ********************************************** >>> 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 >>> ********************************************** >>> >>> >> >