Ralph Shumaker wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> Ralph Shumaker wrote: >>> I don't know what I did, but [Alt][F10] (in gnome on FC7) used to >>> maximize the active window. For some reason the right hand [Alt] >>> stopped functioning this way. How do I fix this? >>> >> >> The choices on this config page seem designed with specific intent to >> confuse >> >> ..but >> >> You may find some options to experiment with at >> >> system > preferences > keyboard > layout options >> >> Look at 'Group Shift/Lock behavior" > > All seems fine here. > >> in addition to "Alt/Win key behavior" > > This /seems/ all right with the setting of "Default", but I'm going to > try others. > > How can I be sure that the right hand [Alt] key is even working? I'm > currently getting no indication of it. Well, I just answered my own > question (about it working). This is a USB keyboard. Once before I had > a problem with it ceasing to work during a session. Hotplugging did not > help. The PS2 keyboard would not work if plugged in hot. IIRC, the > mouse still worked so I was able to save everything. But it was such an > inconvenience that since that time I have left the PS2 keyboard plugged > in all the time. I just tend to forget that it's there. Anyway, I just > checked, and it exibits the same behavior. So unless they both just > happen to have the right [Alt] key bad, ... > > Enough poking around with different options led to the proper > frustration level and frame of mind to choose [Reset to defaults] which > promptly restored proper function. Further tinkering revealed that the > mere *presence* of the spanish keyboard layout "Catalan" was the > culprit. Present => malfunction. Absent => OK. All this is despite > the fact that the "U.S. English" layout was selected the whole time. > > Further poking and changing reveals that it makes no difference which > keyboard I select (even U.S. English International). The mere presence > of a second layout kills the right [Alt] key. > > So much for a convenient way to type Spanish.
Strange. Not that I type much of anything other than English, but I was interested in finding out what the "gnome keyboard indicator" was some time ago. I remember having some troubles, but I didn't seem to keep any notes -- sorry, Anyway, I did end up with several alternatives, and it works as expected, except that the layout view popup has many of the key legends too small to read -- that's really annoying, and seriously detracts from usability. [Fra]Oh, and another thing, once you get it zorking; [Deu]trz not to qccidentqlly set the wrong lazout. [LAm]It can make things very hard to read if you happen to land on letters that occur in places you are unexpecting '' thoughÑ with LatinAmerican, it seems that most of the qwerty keys are untouchedñ but, watch out for certain puncuation surprises, eh_ Oh, BTW, I have set the "Third Level Choosers" option to "Menu key". If you don't have one of those, the other choices seem workable. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
