Re:x11-users digest, Vol 1 #304 - 6 msgs
Re:x11-users digest, Vol 1 #304 - 6 msgs
- Subject: Re:x11-users digest, Vol 1 #304 - 6 msgs
- From: Kenneth Knight <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 04:54:32 -0400
Well after getting xkeycaps running (sorta, didn't seem to want to install the man pages; something went wrong with its html file too) and looking at the supported keyboards I see that this tiny USB keyboard (not the extended one, the other one - the small one remiscient of the old iMacs) is not on the supported list. The closest is the Extended II keyboard. And that one doesn't even seem to react when you press the command or option keys on this keyboard - control reacts). So maybe my problem is just that this keyboard isn't supported. Still that sounds unlikely to me since a powerbook keyboard is pretty much the same.
By the way I am just using the stock quartz-wm window manager. Pretty much stock install of the whole thing (or so I think). At least OpenOffice works well (and xterm - ick).
** Ken **
On 5/27/03 at 10:52 PM, email@hidden (Daniel M. German) wrote:
>> I've got public beta 3 of X11 up and running. In general I am happy with
>> it. I'm noodling about and figuring things out. But, one thing is not
>> working at all. As I understand it the Alt key should be getting mapped to
>> the Command key (when enalbe menu key equivilants is off), but it doesn't
>> seem to be working at least under GIMP 1.2.1). I'd not really mind except
>> that GIMP uses the Alt key to let you view and hence edit layer masks.
>
>For all those having problems with the keyboard, try xkeycaps. It
>might be able to assist you in finding out who is who (what is the
>keymap for a given keystroke). I also use the emacs describe-key to
>find out what I am pressing from the point of view of the X
>application. I am still having some problems with some applications,
>but at least I have been able to remap some keystrokes (for example, I
>hate using 2 hands for press PgUp PgDown, so I use now F11 and F12
>instead). I will send my xmodrc file to anybody who requests it, if
>interested (Powerbook 17"). I have gotten Alt-Left and Alt-Right to
>work with Mozilla (previous page, next page).
** Kenneth Knight Web Design, IT Consultant, Software Engineer **
** email@hidden http://www.speakeasy.org/~krk **
** Ultralight backpacker http://www.speakeasy.org/~krk **
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