Re: xkb: how to map symbol Meta to key Alt
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:46:37PM +0100, Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
Hello,
How to map symbol Meta to key Alt?
My previous mappings:
-
In opensuse 11.1 I simply edited xfree86 keycodes files, and put for
keycodes AltL/AltR scancodes MetaL/MetaR. It worked without any
problems with X11.
Now:
I have opensuse 11.4 and editing xfree86 simply does not work (it is
completely strange for me, because this file is mentioned in the
config files). I put the same table as for 11.1 and Alt was still
Alt.
So I tried to edit symbols file, but no matter what I try, no success.
In all cases, xev reports (when pressing Alt) that Meta key was
pressed, however X11 still recognizes Alt as Alt -- for example when
running Firefox, I press Alt+F and File menu opens, or I press
Alt+Tab, and I get windows list.
Since I have my entire layout defined for national characters as
Meta+key, I can also check if I get national characters (óąłäö,
etc.) -- I don't get them.
Hm, I hope I did understand correctly. You want to use the Alt key to
generate characters and not use any of the desktop functionality tied to
it. If clients interpret Alt and Meta alike, you have to use another
way. Do you have a national layout available that produces all the chars
you want with ISO_Level3_Shift (aka AltGr)? If so you can simply put that
modifier onto the Alt key.
My tries:
key LALT { [ Meta_L ] }; // (*)
modifier_map Mod3 { LALT, RALT };
or
key LALT { [ Meta_L, Meta_L ] };
modifier_map Mod3 { LALT, RALT };
or
key LALT { type[Group1] = ONE_LEVEL,
symbols[Group1] = [ Meta_L ] };
modifier_map Mod3 { LALT, RALT };
I also tried to add replace before key, over and over same results
(as you can see, I am/was pretty despair ;-) ).
So how to do it with xkb? I could do it with xmodmap, but I prefer
xkb -- after switching layout xmodmap is killed.
Thank you in advance for help.
Kind regards,
(*) the entries are doubled, for right Meta/Alt.
--
Cheers,
Dirk
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Re: xkb: how to map symbol Meta to key Alt
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