Re: Using ALT in applications

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Under Debian anyway, and I would THINK other dists as well, but.... the
104 key keyboard is already mapped similarly. The 'Alt' keys generate
ALT_L and ALT_R, left micros~1 generates Meta_L, and I think right
micros~1 generates Multi_Key but I have it mapped to Meta_R and use the
menu key for Multi_Key.

Now the other question is which of the unnamed Mod bits gets to be
dedicated to which set of keys. Basic X specification doesn't say; it's
only general consensus that ALT uses Mod1 and Meta uses Mod4.. There just
aren't enough modifier bits for real Space Cadet keyboards. ;/

On 26 Nov 2000, Ole Laursen wrote:

> >> I use KDE over Gnome for one reason (otherwise, I find them about the same).
> >> In my default KDE installation (Mandrake 7.2 is the latest version), I can
> >> use e.g. Alt-F in Emacs and the Alt binding "gets through". In Gnome/Sawfish,
> >> it does not - pressing ALT causes a title bar change but it's not passed on
> >> to the app.
> > 
> > I'm fairly new to sawfish, but I believe what you're after is in the
> > sawfish "Bindings" controls.  You can access that from gnomecc or the
> > customize menu option in the middle-button root menu.
> 
> Yeah, open up the control panel, scroll down to Sawfish and it should
> be there. If you have a Windows keyboard, here comes a cool tip:
> 
> The idea is to rebind the keys with the ugly Micros~1 flags on them to
> the hyper key (a strange key which exists on some X terminal keyboards
> - works like Alt or Ctrl). This key can then be used in all
> keybindings for the window manager instead of meta; thus you avoid all
> the annoying clashes between the keys the individual applications use,
> and the ones that the wm grabs.
> 
> First make sure that your keyboard isn't setup by X to have 104/105
> keys. The setting is stored in /etc/X11/XF86Config (or perhaps
> XF86Config-4) - if you can find something about 104/105 in the
> keyboard section, change it to 101/102. Red Hat doesn't change the
> default (which is 101/102) but I don't know about the other
> distributions.
> 
> Next, insert the following into a .Xmodmap in your home directory:
> 
>   clear Mod4
>   keycode 115 = Hyper_L
>   keycode 116 = Hyper_R
>   add Mod4 = Hyper_L
>   add Mod4 = Hyper_R
> 
> Now run
> 
>   xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
> 
> (or restart X), and you're for the next step.
> 
> Start the GNOME Control Panel and go the bindings page under
> Sawfish. There you change all bindings which begin with 'M-' to begin
> with 'H-' et voila!
> 
> 
> Note that I've only tried this on Danish keyboards, but it *should*
> work and if you experience any trouble, it's easy to revert the
> changes.
> 
> In my .Xmodmap I've also got
> 
>   keycode 117 = slash
> 
>   keysym k = k K braceleft
>   keysym l = l L braceright
>   keysym i = i I bracketleft
>   keysym o = o O bracketright
>   keysym f = f F less
>   keysym g = g G greater
> 
> I don't know whether they are terrible useful with English keyboard
> setups, but with the Danish one they put the slash / on the remaining
> Windows key, and various paranthesis (i.e. '[]{}<>') which are used a
> lot in e.g. LaTeX in a very useful place (AltGr + key).
> 
> -- 
> Ole Laursen 
> http://sunsite.dk/olau/
> 
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