On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:45:32 -0600
John Ehresman <email@hidden> wrote:
> J. Lester wrote:
> > I've tried turning both of those off and on, but it makes no
> > difference. gVim does have an option to disable the alt key for
> > opening menus, but that didn't help. Typing alt+s, for instance,
> > produces an o with an acute accent instead of a German "sharp s".
>
> There is a gtk widget set v. Apple X11 configuration conflict that's
> detailed here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304930 The
> cause of this is Apple has mapped the option key to both the X11 mod1
> and Mode_Switch key symbols and gtk doesn't support this if the
> XKEYBOARD extension is not present. I was able to run X11 with the
> XKEYBOARD extension enabled from a terminal window, but was unable to
> figure out how to enable it by default.
>
> You may be able to use xmodmap to map option to another of the X11
> mod keys.
>
> I have a bug open with Apple, but have yet to receive a substantial
> response.
I guess I'll have to wait until Apple fixes this bug. I've Googled on
using xmodmap and enabling the XKEYBOARD extension, and it's just way
over my head. :-( Thanks anyway for the explanation. In upgrading to
Tiger, I have had more trouble getting X11 straightened out than
everything else combined. :-\
JL
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