Re: What happened to the Compose Key?

From: Pigeon (jah.pigeon_at_ukonline.co.uk)
Date: 04/19/04

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    On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:23:36PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
    > On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:40:09 +0200, Pigeon wrote:
    >
    > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:52:26PM +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
    > >> How could I get my right alt key (which as far as I can tell does
    > >> nothing at present) to imitate the left alt key?
    > >
    > > I have ~/.Xmodmap containing:
    > >
    > > keycode 0x40 = Alt_L
    > > keycode 0x71 = Alt_L
    > >
    > > However this doesn't seem to be a complete solution. It works for
    > > enabling either Alt key to be used in Ctrl-Alt-F<n> combinations to
    > > switch VCs. But Alt-F to access the File menu, for example, has to be
    > > left Alt (in eg. mozilla and kword), and Alt-left-mouse-button to drag a
    > > window (in blackbox) also has to be left Alt.
    >
    > Most probably, you didn't add your shiny new Alt key to the modifier map.
    > (Invoking xmodmap without arguments prints the modifier map.) It's been a
    > while since I used xmodmap, so don't take this as definitive advice:
    >
    > keycode 0x40 = Alt_L
    > keycode 0x71 = Alt_L
    > clear mod1
    > add mod1 = 0x40
    > add mod1 = 0x71

    Ah, many thanks. That wasn't precisely it, but provided the necessary
    clue. Turned out what I needed was:

    keycode 0x40 = Alt_L
    keycode 0x71 = Alt_L
    clear mod1
    add mod1 = Alt_L Alt_L
    clear mod3

    ....and now both applications and the WM are happy. 

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