Ethan Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dominik Vogt spake unto us the following wisdom: > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:00:18PM -0500, Ethan Blanton wrote: > > > Dominik Vogt spake unto us the following wisdom: > > > Virtually all US keyboards have two alt keys which produce Alt_L and > > > Alt_R, and no meta key at all... Typically the X clients are > > > configured to recognize Alt_L as Meta_L. > > > > Um, I have seen many US keyboard, but none had a second Alt key. > > Do you by any chance mean the "Alt Gr" key? That one is usually > > used to compose characters, not like the normal Alt key. > > No, we don't have Alt Gr keys. If I went to CompUSA right now and > looked at every keyboard they have, they would virtually all have: > > 2 Ctrl keys > 2 "Windows" keys > 2 Alt keys > 1 "Menu" key > > =2E.. and that's pretty much it for modifiers. For some reason our US > keyboards are modifier-starved. If I wanted an Alt+Gr or Meta key > (one that produced those keysyms, finding a keyboard where the keytop > says that is nearly impossible) I would have to either choose a non-US > keyboard layout or break out xmodmap/xkb/et al.
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