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- From: smr@hitkw14.pki-nbg.philips.de (S.Riehm)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Strange keyboard mapping for the hpux-8.0x X server ...
- Message-ID: <smr.715865780@hitkw14>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 11:36:20 GMT
- References: <9209030630.AA10608@expo.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Sep3.222643.10721@hpcvusn.cv.hp.com>
- Sender: news@pki-nbg.philips.de
- Lines: 54
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- gms@cv.hp.com (George Sachs) writes:
-
- >The Mode_switch keysym is bound to the Mod1 modifier, making it
- >the Group modifier. That is why you are seeing the key bindings
- >that you reported.
-
- >If you don't want Mod1 to be the group modifier, you can use
- >xmodmap to delete the Mode_switch keysym:
-
- >xmodmap -e "remove mod1 = Mode_switch"
-
- Here is the output from xmodmap -pm.
-
- ---
- xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
-
- shift Shift_R (0xc), Shift_L (0xd)
- lock
- control Control_R (0x8), Caps_Lock (0x37)
- mod1 Meta_L (0xb), Meta_R (0xa)
- mod2 Control_L (0xe)
- mod3
- mod4
- mod5
- ---
-
- note I have no `Mode_switch' listed even, and yet I international
- characters when I hit Meta_L ( Alt_L ) in combination with a key.
- ( I remember someone saying something about turning the Meta keys into
- Alt keys, but that was years ago, and what is the difference? is it
- possible to have Meta keys AND Alt keys at the same time? How can I
- get my hands upgraded to handle all these modifier keys? )
-
- if you are wondering what happened to my caps lock key, I turned it
- off, and I use it for control, and the control key I use as a 'compose'
- key, but even so, it would be nice for tcsh to recognise Alt-p instead
- of having to type ^[-p ( I don't have emacs so I don't know what emacs
- would make of my setup )
-
- PS: what _exactly_ does "Mode_switch" do? I have never actually found a
- man page or file that contains the definitions of all these mysterious
- keycode and keysym names, I normally end up setting the ascii code
- and hoping for the best!
-
- Anyone got any other hints?
-
- thanks in advance
-
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