On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:54:01PM +0100, roberto wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Tony Nelson > <tonynel...@georgeanelson.com> wrote: > >> From your reply it is not clear, to me anyway, if you do have the > >> console-tools package installed. The showkeys program is in that > >> package. If you need to figure out how/what it is for, I suggest you > >> try reading the man page. > > > > I got the same message (on Fedora 12) when running as a normal user. > > It works when run as root. > well, running showkey as root from vt1 gives me: > 0x64 0xe4 > > so the kernel recognizes the key but anyway it does not work under X > (kdm is the manager for kde 3.5)
now try xev in an xterm and see what output you get for the alt key. A
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