On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:20:42 +0200
Elmar Pruesse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> We have the X Keyboard extension enabled, the xkb-data-legacy package
> installed and a file in  SunRayInit/helpers that executes
> 
> /usr/bin/xmodmap -e "clear Mod1" \
>                  -e "clear Mod4" \
>                  -e "add Mod1 = Alt_L" \
>                  -e "add Mod4 = Meta_L" \
>                  -e "add Mod4 = Meta_R"

Ah, that's good. My users are used to "try the key next to the Alt key"
in case Alt is not working as expected. I will try this with my next 
software upgrade.

> 
> Getting the keyboard stuff to work correctly definitely was a major
> pain. Especially since I don't really see why something that never was
> an issue in any other Linux installation should cause so much trouble.

This are the joys of a proprietary X server. Another problem are the
gnome keyboard applet and similar things which do not use the 
XKB extension directly but use libxklavier
<http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LibXklavier> as a middle layer.
They all do not work with Xnewt.


> 
> I think somewhere in between we had it working without xkb, but I think
> it only worked with one keyboard layout and we need to support multiple
> ones.
> 
> Elmar
> 

Meik

-- 
Meik Hellmund
Mathematisches Institut, Uni Leipzig
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.math.uni-leipzig.de/~hellmund
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