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Getting AltGr on German keyboard to work
- From: Alexander Skwar <lists dot ASkwar at email-server dot info>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 00:48:32 +0100
- Subject: Getting AltGr on German keyboard to work
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hello!
I'm trying to get the AltGr key on my Dell Precision m50 keyboard to
work with a German keyboard layout. The notebook is running Windows XP
SP 1 and latest cygwin.
The "plain" keys like y and z work fine. However, umlauts like ä, ö and
ü don't get displayed at all. And also the AltGr key (for characters
like | or @) doesn't seem to work at all. Pressing AltGr shows me these
signals when running xev:
KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001,
root 0x36, subw 0x0, time 2220092, (58,87), root:(1242,107),
state 0x10, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001,
root 0x36, subw 0x0, time 2220092, (58,87), root:(1242,107),
state 0x14, keycode 113 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
KeyRelease event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001,
root 0x36, subw 0x0, time 2220112, (58,87), root:(1242,107),
state 0x2014, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
KeyRelease event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001,
root 0x36, subw 0x0, time 2220112, (58,87), root:(1242,107),
state 0x2010, keycode 113 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
When I press Alt Gr on my Linux desktop, I just get the Mode_switch
keysyms.
When I press ö, xev shows that it get's the "odiaresis" keysym just fine
and in the characters line it shows the ö.
What do I have to do, to get the Alt Gr key to work (most important) and
also the umlauts?
I'd really like to get a fix on the server side, because (once setup)
I'll connect to quite a number of different hosts running all sorts of
OS, like HP-UX 11.00, Solaris and Linux. I don't know if all of these
machines have xmodmap installed.
Thanks,
Alexander Skwar
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