Re: Right Alt-Key not working
Re: Right Alt-Key not working
- Subject: Re: Right Alt-Key not working
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:13:31 -0800
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007, Jochen Pawletta wrote:
>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.
I would quickly get rid of a keyboard that required that type of
contortions to type characters like that! Many years ago I used
a lunchbox type luggable running Linux that had a keyboard with
the frequently used *nix keys, ``/, |, etc.'' in difficult places
while the dumbdos ``\'' key was easy to get to. I carried a real
keyboard with me that had a decent layout.
The first thing I do with any Apple that comes with a keyboard
and mouse is to replace them with a Microsoft ``Natural''
keyboard and a real mouse with three buttons. My wife and I just
gave our daugher a new 20in iMac this weekend, and I found that
keyboard even worse than the one that came with her old eMac.
Bill
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