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- From: tecslm1@sdc.boeing.com (Shamus McBride)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame,esp.general
- Subject: Broken Cut and Paste keys
- Keywords: OpenWindows X11 xmodmap
- Message-ID: <7842@oval.BOEING.COM>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 18:20:17 GMT
- Followup-To: comp.text.frame
- Distribution: boeing
- Organization: Boeing Computer Services (ESP), Seattle, WA
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- I ran into the following problem when running FrameMaker and wanted to
- alert others.
-
- I found that the Sun "Cut" and "Paste" keys were not working with
- FrameMaker. After alot of investigation I found some Usenet articles
- describing a known bug with FrameMaker and OpenWindows:
-
- | PROBLEM: The following keys don't work with olwm: L3
- | (Props), L6 (Copy), L8 (Paste), L9 (Find), and L10 (Cut). In
- | olwm, these keys are modifiers.
- |
- | SOLUTION: You can change the meaning of the keys so they'll
- | work with FrameMaker; however, the keys won't work as modifi-
- | ers for other applications.
-
- Now, I don't run olwm, but it turns out that some (if not all) of the
- OpenWindows clients (Calendar Manager, Gaintool, etc) will change
- (screw up) the meaning of the Lx keys.
-
- If your Lx keys don't seem to be working with FrameMaker do a
-
- xmodmap -pm
-
- If you see any of the Lx keys or function keys F11 through F20 being
- used as a modifer you'll have to clear the modifier state for the keys.
-
- For example, in the following output from xmodmap, F13 (Props),
- F18 (Paste), and F20 (Cut) have been made modifers (mod3).
-
- |xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
- |
- |shift Shift_L (0x6a), Shift_R (0x75)
- |lock
- |control Control_L (0x53)
- |mod1 Meta_L (0x7f), Meta_R (0x81)
- |mod2 Num_Lock (0x69)
- |mod3 F13 (0x20), F18 (0x50), F20 (0x68)
- |mod4
- |mod5
-
- xmodmap -e 'clear mod3'
-
- will restore the keys for use by FrameMaker.
-
- xmodmap -e 'add mod3 = F13 F18 F20'
-
- will return the keys to the OpenWindows use.
-
- I don't know which "mod?" modifer you might find keys bound to. On my
- workstation it was mod3, in Usenet articles I've seen references to
- mod2 and mod5. I don't know if its the same session to session.
-
- --
- Shamus Mc Bride | tecslm1@sdc.boeing.com
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