Hi everyone!
I've one last (hopefully :) dilemma to figure out on this new installation of
Guiness.
I have two machine, one of which was an upgrade from 6.1 to 7.0 and one which
was an upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0. The former has a MS Natural kbd and the
latter has a Belkin of about the same layout and such.
I have all the mappings done to pretty much how I like them with xmodmap but
for some reason the newer machine (6.2->7.0) doesn't consider the Alt_L key to
be a Meta key for some reason. So when I'm inserting lines at the command
prompt, I can't use M-b to hop backwards a word at a time, I have to use ESC-b
(two keystrokes) to do it.
The biggest difference between the XFree86Config files is that the older
system that went from 6.1 to 7.0 has the XKBD extensions disabled and the
newer-created XFree86Config files (stock) has them enabled. I tried disabling
that and it caused more problems and didn't fix the Meta-Key problem.
I checked out the man page for readline, but didn't find anything there that
worked, either.
The output of "xmodmap -pk" for the problem system starts out:
"There are 2 KeySyms per KeyCode; KeyCodes range from 8 to 255."
Where the output of the same command for the system that is working find says:
"There are 4 KeySyms per KeyCode; KeyCodes range from 8 to 134."
Can anyone offer some direction on where to look to remedy this problem? I'd
really like readline to consider that key the Meta-key. As it is, X11 sees it
as Meta_L, so I can use it as a modifier in my .ctwmrc file, but using it at
the command line just generates an accented 'a'...
Thanks for any help anyone might have!
-Michael
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all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly
the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these
republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it
ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under
every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the
best.
-- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816
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