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Re: Right Alt-Key not working
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Re: Right Alt-Key not working


  • Subject: Re: Right Alt-Key not working
  • From: Jochen Pawletta <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:37:29 +0100
  • Mail-followup-to: email@hidden

Am Monday, 2007-11-12 um 18:25:02 -0800 schrieb Bill Campbell:

Hi

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007, Jochen Pawletta wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >Why is the right Alt-Key not working? The left one did ...
>
> The only Apple keyboard I have here is on my Titanium Powerbook,
> and it doesn't have an Alt key.

I have an Apple wireless Keyboard (the "old" white one).
It has a left and right Alt-Key.

> Personally I don't use emacs so don't have much use for the Alt
> keys in X11.

How do you type "@"? With Shift-2 I think? I must press Alt-L.
And as a Sysadmin I often need "|" (Pipe), which is Alt-7
or "\" (Backslash) = Shift-Alt-7 ... and so on.
I was uded to use the right Alt-key for some Symbols.

This is the output of xev, typing left-Alt-7 and right-Alt-7:

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x200001,
    root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 937933204, (398,206), root:(476,248),
    state 0x0, keycode 66 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x200001,
    root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 937933505, (398,206), root:(476,248),
    state 0x2000, keycode 34 (keysym 0x7c, bar), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7c) "|"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7c) "|"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x200001,
    root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 937933579, (398,206), root:(476,248),
    state 0x2000, keycode 34 (keysym 0x7c, bar), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7c) "|"

KeyRelease event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x200001,
    root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 937933916, (398,206), root:(476,248),
    state 0x2000, keycode 66 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x200001,
    root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 937934216, (398,206), root:(476,248),
    state 0x0, keycode 69 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x200001,
    root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 937934616, (398,206), root:(476,248),
    state 0x8, keycode 34 (keysym 0x37, 7), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (37) "7"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (37) "7"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x200001,
    root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 937934691, (398,206), root:(476,248),
    state 0x8, keycode 34 (keysym 0x37, 7), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (37) "7"

KeyRelease event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x200001,
    root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 937934954, (398,206), root:(476,248),
    state 0x8, keycode 69 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

I hope this helps making it clear.


Jochen

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