From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27394 invoked by alias); 18 Feb 2015 23:07:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 27385 invoked by uid 89); 18 Feb 2015 23:07:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mout.kundenserver.de Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (HELO mout.kundenserver.de) (212.227.17.24) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 23:07:26 +0000 Received: from [192.168.2.107] ([88.73.25.29]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MRB2F-1XzICD21Md-00UcN7 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:07:22 +0100 Message-ID: <54E51B2A.5090201@towo.net> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 23:07:00 -0000 From: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ctrl-alt-{ ctrl-alt-[ ctrl-alt-] ctrl-alt-} not working as expected german keyboard on notebook References: <54E3FEFE.2070100@rayed.de> <54E4953F.8080600@dronecode.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <54E4953F.8080600@dronecode.org.uk> X-TagToolbar-Keys: D20150219000722560 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-SW-Source: 2015-02/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 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/