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- From: gjw@csis.dit.csiro.au (Graham Williams)
- Subject: Re: Sun keyboard mapping in imakerenglish Ver 3
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.224059.10771@csis.dit.csiro.au>
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- Organization: Spatial Information Systems, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:40:59 GMT
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- I assume you are using FrameMaker 3.1X (or something similar) on a Sun
- under OpenWindows version 3. The following information may help:
-
- /*\ PASTE and CUT NOT WORKING FOR FRAME UNDER OW3
-
- OpenWindows3 maps L3 (Props), L8 (Paste), and L10 (Cut) to be Mod5's.
- These are consequently unavailable for use in FrameMaker. The
- command:
-
- $ xmodmap -e 'clear mod5' [CLEAR]
-
- removes this mapping, allowing the above keys to work within
- FrameMaker. These keys are then supposed to become unavailable in
- OpenWindows applications as modifiers, however, I have not noticed any
- untoward effect.
-
- To restore the original behaviour the command is:
-
- $ xmodmap -e 'add Mod5 = L3 L8 L10' [ADD]
-
- I have tried putting the CLEAR command in my .xinitrc so that it is
- automatically done each time I start up OpenWindows. Unfortunately, it
- seems that OpenWindows does it's dirty work after .xinitrc is read.
-
- It even seems that some OpenWindows application (or the server itself?)
- may "fix" the modifier dynamically, since after issuing the CLEAR
- command, the keys eventually get mapped back to Mod5 (after using some
- OpenWindows applications?). So you just have to do the CLEAR manually
- as you require it!
-
- My current solution is to use the following cron job:
-
- 15,45 * * * * DISPLAY=":0.0" /usr/openwin/bin/xmodmap -e 'clear mod5'
-
- With this I have generally had the Cut and Paste keys available when I
- go to use them in FrameMaker. You can increase the frequency of this
- if you wish.
-
- \*/
-
-
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