Re: [Cooker] Alt Gr key not working (can't type @ or \)
On 2001.04.19 10:22:14 -0500 Jrgen Zimmermann wrote:
Have a look in your
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Is there something like "xkb" along with "disable"?
If yes, comment out the line, and restart X.
Modifiers should work again...
Thanks for your reply. I did that, but then the keyboard mapping went wrong
(that is, it appeared as a standard us keyboard, instead of
latin-american). I just did a fresh install from april 19th cooker, and the
problem is still there. There's a suspicious-looking error on
xsession-errors that indicates xmodmap aborts while trying to load a file
('xmodmap: commandline:0: bad keysym in remove modifier list 'Meta_L', no
corresponding keycodes / xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.')
However, I don't know what file is xmodmap trying to read; is it
/etc/X11/xinit/Xmodmap ? If it is, there's a line that (I suppose) assigns
Meta_L to keycode 64. So the message would be incorrect.
I notice there are a lot of programs trying to control the keyboard;
there's xmodmap, (although I don't know how it gets called), there's
loadkeys, who gets called from sysconfig/keyboard (or rather from
/etc/rcd.d/init.d/keytable), there's xkb (I don't know what this one does,
but a have another suspicious thing: 'set' gives me XKB_IN_USE=no, and
XMODIFIERS=@im=none); and of course XF86config.
Could someone tell me how all of these interact (or at least, where should
I start looking?)
Thanks
--
Jorge
Re: [Cooker] Alt Gr key not working (can't type @ or \)
On 2001.04.18 16:06:08 -0500 andre wrote:
On a rxvt i see the upside-down ?) is typed but the font is just not
showed.
I don't think mine is a font-related problem. When I press AltGr-Q, I hear
a beep. Nothing gets printed (not a space, and certainly not an @ sign,
which is what should happen.) Same thing when I press AltGr-' (backslash
should print), AltGr-{ (^), AltGr-} (`), or AltGr-| ().
I think is the keyboard, plain and simple. It doesn't believe a have two
different Alt Keys, and responds the same to Alt-Q than AltGr-Q. This
occurs on every single application, it doesn't matter what font it's using.
By the way, I checked my .xsession-errors, like Udo Weber suggested, and I
got similar messages:
xmodmap: commandline:0: bad keysym in remove modifier list 'Meta_L',
_ no corresponding keycodes
xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.
Re: [Cooker] Alt Gr key not working (can't type @ or \)
should print), AltGr-{ (^), AltGr-} (`), or AltGr-| (?).
I think is the keyboard, plain and simple. It doesn't believe a have two
different Alt Keys, and responds the same to Alt-Q than AltGr-Q. This
occurs on every single application, it doesn't matter what font it's using.
By the way, I checked my .xsession-errors, like Udo Weber suggested, and I
got similar messages:
xmodmap: commandline:0: bad keysym in remove modifier list 'Meta_L',
_ no corresponding keycodes
xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.
We used to have a metamod patch for this on rxvt. Can you verify on another
term? I suggest xterm ..
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Geoffrey Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
李長風
http://devel.mandrakesoft.com/~snailtalk
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$/usr/games/fortune
Anything that can go wrong will go
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$
Re: [Cooker] Alt Gr key not working (can't type @ or \)
On 2001.04.19 04:28:56 -0500 Geoffrey Lee wrote: We used to have a metamod patch for this on rxvt. Can you verify on another term? I suggest xterm .. Same thing happens (only I don't hear a beep this time). But as I said, it's not only on the terminals. I can't use the AltGr key on any application (it works on the console, though), that's why I thought it could be an Xfree problem. -- Jorge
Re: [Cooker] Alt Gr key not working (can't type @ or \)
"Jorge E . Gomez" wrote: After a fresh install of cooker (4 days old version), the keyboard layout was properly configured (it's a latin-american keyboard), except that the Alt Gr key (the right-side Alt) doesn't work (at least under gnome; it does work on tty1-6). I can't type the @ symbol (AltGr-Q), for instance. And when I tried to assign a shortcut to that combination, using the sawfish control panel, it detects AltGr-Q the same as Alt-Q. Is this an Xfree problem? (using 4.0.3-7mdk), or is it gnome? (gnome-core-1.4.0.2-2mdk), or sawfish (0.38-3mdk)? Hope it's fixed before the final release. I've been using mandrake since 6.0, and it's never looked as sharp and polished as today. Congratulations. -- Jorge E. Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] same to me but also in KDE I already asked for this problem some time ago without any response, so it's nice to see some others has the same problem :). Now here once again. This problem exists only on new installed cookers. I have a old cooker withe same update-level without this problems. I walked through most known keyboard-configs - all the same on both systems. The only related error-msg on zje new system I got is from the .xsession-errors: ** xmodmap: commandline:0: bad keysym in remove modifier list 'Meta_L', no corresponding xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting. Error while reading Indicator status kxkb: ERROR: X server has not matching XKB extension XKB extension not present on :0.0 XKB extension not present on :0.0 * So please can anyone from Mandrake-team tell me what's wrong here ? Thanks inadvance Udo
Re: [Cooker] Alt Gr key not working (can't type @ or \)
@(I think you mean the upside-down ?, not @. Because that what i see in kde. On a rxvt i see the upside-down ?) is typed but the font is just not showed. If i do it in rxvt i see nothing but a space but if i change the size of it with shiftnum+ it appears. It has probably to do with the font used On Wednesday 18 April 2001 03:46, you wrote: "Jorge E . Gomez" wrote: After a fresh install of cooker (4 days old version), the keyboard layout was properly configured (it's a latin-american keyboard), except that the Alt Gr key (the right-side Alt) doesn't work (at least under gnome; it does work on tty1-6). I can't type the @ symbol (AltGr-Q), for instance. And when I tried to assign a shortcut to that combination, using the sawfish control panel, it detects AltGr-Q the same as Alt-Q. Is this an Xfree problem? (using 4.0.3-7mdk), or is it gnome? (gnome-core-1.4.0.2-2mdk), or sawfish (0.38-3mdk)? Hope it's fixed before the final release. I've been using mandrake since 6.0, and it's never looked as sharp and polished as today. Congratulations. -- Jorge E. Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] same to me but also in KDE I already asked for this problem some time ago without any response, so it's nice to see some others has the same problem :). Now here once again. This problem exists only on new installed cookers. I have a old cooker withe same update-level without this problems. I walked through most known keyboard-configs - all the same on both systems. The only related error-msg on zje new system I got is from the .xsession-errors: ** xmodmap: commandline:0: bad keysym in remove modifier list 'Meta_L', no corresponding xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting. Error while reading Indicator status kxkb: ERROR: X server has not matching XKB extension XKB extension not present on :0.0 XKB extension not present on :0.0 * So please can anyone from Mandrake-team tell me what's wrong here ? Thanks inadvance Udo
Re: [Cooker] Alt Gr key not working (can't type @ or \)
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:06:08PM -0400, andre wrote: @(I think you mean the upside-down ?, not @. Because that what i see in kde. On a rxvt i see the upside-down ?) is typed but the font is just not showed. If i do it in rxvt i see nothing but a space but if i change the size of it with shiftnum+ it appears. It has probably to do with the font used I guess so, if previous versions worked for you. It's really hard to find a version which can work for all locales but at the same time I want to use one Western font for all locales, given the fact that people (that includes me) will not like it if they switch locales and find that the font is totally different! p.s. Font suggestions welcome ... -- Geoffrey Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] 李長風 http://devel.mandrakesoft.com/~snailtalk ftp://devel.mandrakesoft.com/pub/people/snailtalk $/usr/games/fortune Anything that can go wrong will go Segmentation fault (core dumped) $
