I've posted this some days ago, noone reacted so either it went unnoticed or noone knows. Hoping for the first I retitled it.
Tired of stretching my little finger to reach for the control key I thought of using my thumb instead, so I defined the right alt key to function as an extra control key. Very nice typing experience indeed. Unfortunately alt-control stopped working in some instances, e.g. it works for alt-control-x, but it fails for alt-control-v :( And it doesn't matter whether I try this in X with xkeycaps copying the left Control key onto the right Alt key, or on the console with the apropriate loadkeys command: $ loadkeys <<EOF include "/etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz" keycode 100 = Control EOF To make it easier to discuss this problem I use the following conventions: Ctrl refers to one of the keys labeled Ctrl, Alt refers to one of the keys labeled Alt, CtrlL, CtrlR, AltL, AltR refer to the left/right key labeled Ctrl/Alt, Control, Meta refer to the resp modifier bit. Setting things up so that Ctrl and AltR all set the Control bit and AltL still sets the Meta bit, I get this weird behaviour. AltL-Ctrl-X gives Meta-Control-X AltL-AltR-X gives Meta-Control-X So it seems to work, but... AltL-Ctrl-V gives Meta-Control-V AltL-AltR-V gives nothing, nada, nop! I tried all I could think of and more, but can't make sense out of this. -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]