Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 7/3/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Carl Lowenstein wrote: >> > On 7/3/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> The key legends on the layout view have up to 4 symbols, right? >> >> Left pair are X and Shift-X, right pair are 3lm-X and 3lm-Shift-X, >> >> where 3lm is the 'third level modifier' key. Works for me. >> > >> > What's a "third level modifier" key? I don't think I have one on my >> > keyboard. >> >> <heh> >> Left-over terminology from prior message: >> preferences > keyboard > layout options (tab) > third level choosers >> >> hmmm, at the moment I don't recall the origin of third level /modifier/, >> although I do think I like it better than third level /chooser/. >> > > I found something like this by Google search. But who has a keyboard > with an otherwise unused key to dedicate to this function. I know -- > Windows key. But those are scarce around here.
If you use a key layout with more than 2 glyphs per key, then dedicating the right-alt or right-ctrl is a reasonable choice. Umm, if you have one of those, of course. > > Or is this another case of control-alt-meta-cokebottle? See > "cokebottle" in The New Hackers Dictionary, or google for the whole > 4-word term. I thought that was right left of the /anykey/ ?? Regards, ..j -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
