Has anyone successfully used staroffice 6.0 and been able to insert
special characters on Mandrale 8.2? 

I used to do this in Mandrake 8.1/Open Office by using xmodmap to make
my right alt key be the Alt_GR key. It worked fine. Here are the
differences I've noticed about trying it with Mandrake 8.2

1. I can't do that in either OpenOffice 641c or staroffice 6.0

2. I can't set a key to be Alt_GR, but apparently (according to the help
pages in staroffice 6.0) I should set it to Mode_switch.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Fixed it?

The steps I have tried, as outlined in the staroffice help pages are...

export SAL_ALTGR_COMPOSE=true
xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_R = Mode_switch"

and after checking the output of xmodmap -pk, the correct mapping has
been set. But for some reason, pressing the right alt key and then the 2
key sequence for the unicode characters does not work like in did with
Mandrake 8.1.

Please respond directly to me as I am not subscribed.

Sincerely,
Ryan




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