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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: rhofmann@rayed.de
Subject: Re: ctrl-alt-{ ctrl-alt-[ ctrl-alt-] ctrl-alt-} not working as expected german keyboard on notebook
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54E4953F.8080600@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54E3FEFE.2070100@rayed.de>
On 18/02/2015 02:54, rhofmann@rayed.de wrote:
> Dell Latitude E6540, german keyboard.
>
> I can type AltGr-{ ... and so on, but ctrl-alt-{ ... as labeled on the
> keyboard gives something wrong.
>
> It seems like when Alt is pressed Ctrl (Strg) is ignored, it gives the
> same keys as without Ctrl.
>
> I tried some things with setxkbmap, but no success.
Unfortunately, there doesn't currently seem to be a way to configure X
to act in this way.
In xkeyboard-config language, you are trying to access the "3rd level
shift" for a key (1st level is the normal key, 2nd is the shifted key)
I believe that the standard (DIN 2137) specifies that this 3rd level is
accessed by right alt.
ctrl + left alt being equivalent to right alt is a Windows-ism [1].
See the upstream bug [2], you might also find the discussion in [3] of
interest.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key#Control_.2B_Alt_as_a_substitute
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37232
[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/822872
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-18 13:36 UTC|newest]
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2015-02-18 2:55 rhofmann
2015-02-18 13:36 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2015-02-18 23:07 ` Thomas Wolff
2015-02-22 13:39 ` Jon TURNEY
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