Re: [opensuse] Meta character

Sat, 09 Aug 2008, by josethadeu@xxxxxxxxx:

On Saturday 09 August 2008 08:07:24 Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 09 August 2008 13:03:32 Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
Hi,

In configuration of Desktop KDE 4.x/All Effects shortcuts appears the
term meta, what means it and how can I activated?

It depends a bit on your keyboard layout, but usually, "meta" is the "alt"
key on your keyboard

Anders

How can I know what the key is the meta?

Run 'xev'
For my keyboard ("PC Sunshine KB-6868 105 key (XFree86; US)") the
Shift-Alt keys act as Meta-L and Meta-R

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 2881388899, (173,-12), root:(884,502),
state 0x10, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 2881389372, (173,-12), root:(884,502),
state 0x11, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe7, Meta_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 2881392928, (173,-12), root:(884,502),
state 0x10, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 2881394743, (173,-12), root:(884,502),
state 0x11, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffe8, Meta_R), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

Without Shift the keys are just Alt-L and Alt-R

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 2881566636, (404,179), root:(1115,693),
state 0x18, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 2881568535, (404,179), root:(1115,693),
state 0x10, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

Notice that the keycodes stay the same with or without Shift, but the
keysym values change.

Theo
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