On Tuesday 11 March 2003 16:53, Alan Horkan wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 11:10, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > i would have sworn alt+gr 4 worked in Mandrake > > > > Please pardon the dumb question, but what key is "gr" on most systems? > > I dont really believe in Dumb questions, just make sure you have made at > least some effort to find the answer yourself, at a bare minumum putting > the word into your search engine of choice. > > Many keyboards have two Alt keys > the second one/the one on the right is often labelled "Alt Gr", and in > certain circumstances it behaves differently to the other Alt. I believe > that the Gr is short for Grey*. [...] > Alt Gr stands for Alt(ernative) Graphic. It was originally, as you > correctly say, intended for additional keyboard characters, and many > layouts use it for that purpose, with the additional character being > shown to the right of the lower character on the key.
Ahhhh... No wonder I didn't recognize this. I don't have any such key on my keyboard. Perhaps this is because I have a laptop with an abbreviated layout. In any case, thanks for clearing up the mystery. Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them [EMAIL PROTECTED] | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999) | PGP Public Key at http://4th.com/keys/courtney.pubkey ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
