On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:14:07PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:44:32AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > which looks sane to me. Here's the (maybe) interesting part: When I > > > press <ALT>, I see: > > > > > > Input keysym 0xFFE7, 0:'' 7bit > > > Handle 7bit-key > > > > Is that <ALT> the same as one of your Meta_L or Alt_R keys? > I mean the key labeled "alt" on the keyboard. On my Mac Keyboard: > keycode 64, keysym 0xffe7. It has the modifier ALT_L assigned by default > and I change that via: > keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L > which works according to xev.
ok - that (difference in PC versus other keyboards) was one of the comments that google found which illustrates the alt/meta issue. > > xev could identify that. What your trace seems to indicate to me > > is that the mod1 for Meta_L isn't having a real effect, so the literal > > key is sent to xterm. That should show up in xev's trace (though xev > > doesn't show the modifier information, it should show a "Alt_L" or > > "Meta_L"). > When I do: > xmodmap -e 'keycode 64 = Alt_L' (removing the Meta_L) *it works* again. > So it seems it's actually not "Meta sends escape" anymore but rather > "Alt sends escape". ok. I don't see anyplace in xterm that I could improve on here (since it sees only one of the alt/meta definitions). There is some provision for keys having more than one name and modifier (which may have issues to resolve). Does gnome-terminal still work if you remove the definition for Meta_L? > This is a change in behaviour which we should at least document somewhere > in the debian package before closing the bug. > > I'm still having some problems with my <apple-key>-click = "middle > click" emulation, which completely confuses xterm at the moment (and > which showed up at the same time than the above problem), but I'll have > to dig deeper into this before reporting this as a bug. > > Thanks _very_ much for your help, no problem (though it doesn't seem that it's solved yet) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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