Fiorenzo,

Don't tell me.  Tell the Cygwin/XFree86 mailing list (I have cc'd the
mailing list).

I have pretty much said that I am not going to be working on keyboard
issues.  I don't have the time, nor would I derive any benefit from keyboard
code that works better with non-US keyboards or with AIX (because I don't
use either).

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fiorenzo Zanotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: FW: problem with keyobord on AIX
>
>
> hi harold,
>
> I use Xwin to access AIX using an Italian Keyboard.
>
> At logon time one can choose the preferred language.
> Choosing Italian or Czech enable italian or czech keyboard extensions.
>
> I can give you some hints on what is happening on AIX.
>
> I've used "xev" to test the keyboard behaviour.
>
> It seems that XWin produce a wrong "state".
>
> State values reported by xev
>
> Key           IBM   XWin
> ------        ----- -----
> Shift         0x1     0x1
> Lock          0x2     0x2
> Ctrl          0x4     0x4
> AltL          0x8     0x8
> AltGr         0x10    0x2000
> numLock       0x80    0x10
>
> numlock on XWin produces the same state of ALTGR on IBM.
> This explain why no characters appears when numLock is on.
>
> I use this workaround:
> 1) numLock always off
> 2) after login or in .dtprofile use :
> "xmodmap -e 'keysym Mode_switch = Alt_R'"
>
> Hope this will help.
> hi.
>       fiorenzo.
>

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