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Re: 1.3a1 - ( really where to set up key mappings )

That's correct. Like I said before in a previous post, all the Leopard vs Tiger differences came as a result of the following bug report during the Leopard beta period:

From within an xterm in X11 run the key event viewer /usr/X11R6/bin/ xev and you can see that some of the keys (on my white Apple keyboard which has a numeric pad to the right) are not correctly being identified. The main culprits are the shift, control, option/alt and command keys on either side of the space bar. BOTH shift keys read as 'Shift_L' instead of the usual 'Shift_L' & 'Shift_R' on every other *nix system. Same goes with the control keys (the right side key reads as Control_L instead of Control_R), and for the command keys (the right side key reads as Meta_L instead of Meta_R). The option/alt keys either side of the space bar are just weird - they both read as 'Mode_Switch' instead of the usual 'Alt_L' and 'Alt_R'.


Apple 'fixed' everything for Leopard in accordance with the above EXCEPT they left the left side Option/Alt key as Mode_Switch (and changed the right side Option/Alt key to Alt_R). At the time I thought leaving the left side Option/Alt key as Mode_Switch was an oversight on Apple's behalf. Little did I appreciate the grief I was about to unleash on you guys...

I guess I mistakenly thought that I was making X11 better and didn't figure this was going to affect the Mac side.

Mick.

On Nov 21, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Jochen Pawletta wrote:

Am Wednesday, 2007-11-21 um 14:22:11 -0800 schrieb Nathaniel Gray:

Hi

It seems this feature is fairly highly desired... How would this be
for a control in X11->Preferences->X11 Keyboard Modification Mapping:
... 

Before you go down this road, let's find out what was done in Tiger.
I don't know about you folks, but my keyboard was fine in Tiger.  For
those of you outside the US, did things work before?


de_DE: works for me in Tiger.

Both Alt-Keys were able to generate "|\~" and so on.
I think both Alt-Keys were mapped to "Mode_switch".


Jochen

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 >Re: 1.3a1 - (Was: Re: Where's Ben?) (From: "Andrew J. Hesford" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: 1.3a1 - (Was: Re: Where's Ben?) (From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>)
 >Re: 1.3a1 - (Was: Re: Where's Ben?) (From: "Andrew J. Hesford" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: 1.3a1 - (From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>)
 >Re: 1.3a1 - ( really where to set up key mappings ) (From: Anton Rang <email@hidden>)
 >Re: 1.3a1 - ( really where to set up key mappings ) (From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>)
 >Re: 1.3a1 - ( really where to set up key mappings ) (From: "Nathaniel Gray" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: 1.3a1 - ( really where to set up key mappings ) (From: Jochen Pawletta <email@hidden>)



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