On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 04:42:09PM -0500, Guy T. Rice wrote:
> Okay, here's where it starts getting hairy. In addition to supporting a
> full set of modifier keys (Meta, Alt, Super, and Hyper), X-Windows also
> has "mod keys", mod1 - mod5, which can be associated with particular
> modifier keys. I don't know how your keymap is set up, but I suspect
> Meta and Alt are set up as seperate keys, but they're both associated
> with "mod1". Now, a program can be setup to look for Meta, Alt, or mod1.
> If it's looking for Meta or Alt, it'll only see it if you hit the
> appropriate key. If it's looking for "mod1", it'll see either, since
> you've associated both with "mod1". Thus, you get the confusing
> behavior of some programs treating your Meta and Alt keys as if they
> were identical and some programs treating them differently.
After reading your message I tried to switch windows using the right ALT
key and sure enough it didn't work; I then went went into the Sawmill
configuration program and used the "Grab Key" button to set it using the
right Alt key and it came up as Mod3-TAB, so the two ALTs are set up
differently. A little experimentation showed the the left "Windows key" was
mapped as Meta, the right Windows key as "Multi_key" and the little key
with the menu on it as "Menu". Thanks for your info, I have been using X
for a long time but I have always pretty much just learned to live with
whatever configuration I got, but it's nice to know a little more about
what's doing on.
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Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS
West Dover Hundred, Delaware
