Re: xserv 4.3.0-29 Alt Gr Problem is gone

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de>]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Hans Dekker wrote:

> Sorry for being persistent, but I guess I have to revisit alt-Gr key 
> problem using a Spanish keyboard.
> 
> Just tried xserv version 4.3.0-30 (I used the 4.3.0-21 before), and 
> starting X-windows in either a xfree bash shell as well as the CDE 
> environment xmodmap tells me that I have only 2 definitions per key 
> (normal key usage and Shift-key combination). So the Alt-Gr definition 
> is not defined for the keys.

I've just tried

$ setxkbmap es

Pressing AltGr + '1' results in '|'

but xmodmap -pke does not print the extra symbols. So this must be a bug 
in xmodmap. 

For your problem with spanish layout and CDE (which is most likely a 
quite old X11 installation) I'd pass you on to xfree86@xfree86.org.

> Xf86Config and the es keyboard map have been modified to define AltGr as 
> Mode_Switch. I tried various startup parameters with the XWin 
> executable, but no success. I installed xserv 4.3.0-30 over version 
> 4.3.0-21 using the Cygwin setup program. It's running in Windows XP.

bye
	ago
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