[I18n] why does Mode_switch not work sometimes?

[Leston Buell]

Have others had problems with getting Mode_switch to work? After hours 
of experimentation, i still have gotten Mode_switch to work on only one 
of the two machines i've tried it on. I'm using Mandrake Linux 9.0 and 
9.1 with XFree86 4.2 and 4.3, respectively. I do this with xmodmap:

keycode 0x71 =  Mode_switch Multi_key
keycode 54 = C NoSymbol Ccircumflex
clear Mod1
clear Mod2
clear Mod3
clear Mod4
clear Mod5
add Mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R
add Mod2 = Mode_switch Multi_key
When i open xkeycaps, when i mouse over the right Alt key (on my US 
keyboard), i see that changes have taken place. However, when i try to 
type anything into any application using the AltR key, nothing happens. 
And yet, if i do Shift+AltR the Multi_key compose function does work. 
This is not a problem with the Ccircumflex symbol; if i replace 
Ccircumflex with some more common symbol (such as "r"), Mode_switch 
still doesn't work. Any clues?

After hours of tinkering, Mode_switch finally started working on my 
laptop, but i can't figure out what i did to make it work. I am 
essentially running the same xmodmap file over two practically identical 
keyboard mappings. Why would the result be different between the two 
machines?

Leston

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