Re: Alt-Ctrl occupied?
Re: Alt-Ctrl occupied?
- Subject: Re: Alt-Ctrl occupied?
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:32:30 +0200 (CEST)
+ Dirk Kostrewa <email@hidden>:
> This is what I get in xev when first pressing Alt/Option-Ctrl, then
> clicking the left mouse button and releasing the keys again:
>
> KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x600001,
> root 0x1fd, subw 0x0, time 1408704823, (80,144), root:(80,166),
> state 0x0, keycode 66 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen YES,
Ah, so your Alt key is actually set up as Mode_switch. Now that I
think of it, so is mine. If you really want it to act as Alt under
X11, you need to run
xmodmap -e 'keycode 66 = Alt_L'
But then, of course, you lose the ability to type many characters that
require this key. It's a trade-off.
- Harald
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