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From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ctrl-alt-{ ctrl-alt-[ ctrl-alt-] ctrl-alt-} not working as expected german keyboard on notebook Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 23:07:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <54E51B2A.5090201@towo.net> (raw) In-Reply-To: <54E4953F.8080600@dronecode.org.uk> Am 18.02.2015 um 14:35 schrieb Jon TURNEY: > 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. Your description is quite inprecise; which terminal do you use (xterm?) and what exactly do you expect and see in those cases? > > 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]. Again, not sure exactly what effect you suggest but in fact Ctrl+Left-Alt and AltGr can be distinguished and it works in both xterm and mintty. (It's a bit tricky and I don't recall the details right now, it involves considering the sequence of events.) ------ Thomas > > 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 > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-18 23:07 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2015-02-18 2:55 rhofmann 2015-02-18 13:36 ` Jon TURNEY 2015-02-18 23:07 ` Thomas Wolff [this message] 2015-02-22 13:39 ` Jon TURNEY
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