Hi, playing around with xkeycaps I got convinced at last, that SuSE qualifies indeed as Loser Vendor (see xkeycaps.1x) with its xkb setup. I removed Meta_L from the alt keycode and am already recovering from my alt before shift habit.
thanks, On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Dominik Vogt wrote: > Yes, it does. Your problem occurs because fvwm can not decide > whether it should have expected Shift pressed for the Alt_L key or > not. To understand the problem, consider this: > > Some keyboards map Shift-F1 to F11. Now, what does this binding > mean? > > Key F11 A S something > > Does this apply to Shift-F1? > > Unfortunately it's not possible to find out exactly which key was > pressed with which modifiers held, so all you can do is guess. In > fvwm, I decided to ignore the "S" in this binding and treat it > exactly like > > Key F1 A S something > Key F11 S something > > This can have some funny results in some exotic cases like yours. > I'd like to fix it, but doing so will inadvertedly break other > cases. > > Ciao > > Dominik ^_^ ^_^ > -- Roland Hautz -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
