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 _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
