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- From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
- Subject: Re: AltGr bindings in clients (esp. xterm)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.024246.15139@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- References: <657@fafnir.plusplus.is>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:42:46 GMT
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- In article <657@fafnir.plusplus.is> heimir@plusplus.is (Heimir Thor Sverrisson) writes:
- >Can somebody out there tell me how to alter the Alt-key bindings
- >especially for xterm in XFree86. I had this all working fine in the
- >Roell X11R4 version (with a strange combination of ttymap and xmodmap).
- >Xmodmap entries seem to work for the first two entries following the
- >keycode, but I cannot get any modifier to work. For example:
- >
- >keycode 20 = odiaeresis Odiaeresis backslash
- >
- >I get my Oe's but the backslash won't show, I've tried to bind my Alt-keys
- >to mod1 and mod3 without any luck. What shall I do?
- >BTW, I'm running ISC 3.0 on a 486.
- >Thanks in advance for any help on this.
-
- The following xmodmap commands should make your AltGr key work the way
- you require:
-
- clear mod1
- keysym Alt_R = Mode_switch
- add mod1 = Alt_L
- add mod5 = Mode_switch
-
- David
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