Re: AltGr problem solved, sort of

[John Sullivan]

> On 5月3日, 上午11时55分, John Sullivan <j...@wjsullivan.net> wrote:
>> So, under X on Debian mipsel, the left alt key behaves like Alt_Gr, and
>> not like a normal Alt key. What I don't understand about this is that
>> xev reports that the key is Alt_L. The actual Alt_Gr key (on the right)
>> is also Alt_Gr.
>>
>> Any idea what's going on here? I've experimented with the different lv3
>> xkboptions, and they have different effects but none of them restore the
>> expected behavior for the alt key.
>>
> how about change
> modifier_map Mod5 { ISO_Level3_Shift };
> to
> modifier_map Mod5 { <RALT> };
> in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/level3

So, it turns out that this was a problem only in uxterm, not in other
programs like Iceweasel, so I was wrong to blame X. I had tested the key
in Iceweasel, and wasn't able to access the menu bar shortcuts, but
apparently that was just a focus problem and not a key problem.

For now I've just switched to rxvt-unicode and the Alt key behaves as
expected. I found a number of places that have described how to fix what
the problem probably is in xterm, but it doesn't seem worth the trouble
right now.

I'd prefer to just use gnome-terminal, but that isn't installing in
Debian mipsel right now.

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