On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:05:43AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 03:20 +0100, Sam Halliday wrote:
> > Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > I don't see many differences between this and the current
> > > /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/gb file, which I fixed up in xlibs
> > > 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5:
> >
> > this is what is different:
> >
> > // let the marked "alt" be AltGr (as it is in MacOS)
> > key <LALT> { [ Mode_switch ] };
> > // let the Apple key be Alt
> > key <LWIN> { [ Alt_L ] };
> >
> > the key physically marked "alt" on a macintosh keyboard is actually altgr
> > (as
> > can confirmed in MacOS X). The apple key should then be the alt key. this
> > mapping does that.
>
> There are XKB options to change the default behaviour of the modifiers,
> e.g. I use compose:rwin and grp:lwin_switch .
>
> I agree that the default should be what is physically written on the
> keys whenever possible, and the option key says 'alt' here.In that case it sounds like this problem would be resolved for the submitter by using the following configuration: XkbRules xfree86 XkbModel macintosh XkbLayout gb XkbOptions grp:lwin_switch,compose:rwin Does any one object to me closing this bug? -- G. Branden Robinson | Arguments, like men, are often Debian GNU/Linux | pretenders. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Plato http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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