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Re: Define a foreign language keyboard in HP-Ux CDE, with theAltGrkey?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:36:45 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: Define a foreign language keyboard in HP-Ux CDE, with theAltGrkey?
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- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Hans Dekker wrote:
> It is true what Franz says: applying another X-Window System Package
> maps the right keyboard (Spanish in my case).
>
> So, by logical thinking you may say that Xfree86 somehow gives a
> keyboard mapping to CDE that is different from what it should be.
>
> Unfortunately my time right now is restricted on the subject. Some time
> later I could dive into the problem and possibly the source code, so any
> comments that can help are welcome. There must be something simple I
> guess, because German keyboards (and other non-US keyboards) will suffer
> from the same problem.
Just a wild guess:
CDE uses an older X11 Release where ISO_Level3_Shift was still called
Mode_switch. I guess CDE changes the modmap and sets AltGr to a symbol
which is not recognized as Level3-Shift by the xserver.
You can start xev for debugging. If it is not available with CDE, you
can start a local xterm (from cygwin) after loggin into CDE and start
xev from the cygwin xterm.
bye
ago
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