On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 03:00:27PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: [...] > Without metaSendsEscape alt-b generates an accented a. I turn on > altwin:meta_win: > > shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) > lock Caps_Lock (0x42) > control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) > mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_L (0x7d) > mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) > mod3 > mod4 Meta_L (0x73), Meta_R (0x74), Super_L (0x7f), Hyper_L (0x80), > Meta_L (0x9c) > mod5 Mode_switch (0x5d), ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c) > > Now neither alt-b nor windows-b produces any effect.
This is already fixed in SVN. I sent a patch to upstream which has been accepted, but it has side effects and needs to be reverted. The bogus patch is http://bugzilla.xfree86.org/attachment.cgi?id=1197 and has to be (un)applied against /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/altwin. > I can't reproduce all of these results in another server with GNOME and > Metacity running - specifically, with mod1 cleared, Alt-b generates "b" > instead of the accented "a". I assume that's either GNOME or Metacity > somehow eating the modifier. Right now I don't care. It's the keyboard > cursor movement that I need. There are other issues with Metacity (#272208), see #271542 for some ideas on how to solve these bugs. Denis
