Hello! I'm trying to get the AltGr key on my Dell Precision m50 keyboard to work with a German keyboard layout. The notebook is running Windows XP SP 1 and latest cygwin.
The "plain" keys like y and z work fine. However, umlauts like ä, ö and ü don't get displayed at all. And also the AltGr key (for characters like | or @) doesn't seem to work at all. Pressing AltGr shows me these signals when running xev: KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001, root 0x36, subw 0x0, time 2220092, (58,87), root:(1242,107), state 0x10, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001, root 0x36, subw 0x0, time 2220092, (58,87), root:(1242,107), state 0x14, keycode 113 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" KeyRelease event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001, root 0x36, subw 0x0, time 2220112, (58,87), root:(1242,107), state 0x2014, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" KeyRelease event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x2400001, root 0x36, subw 0x0, time 2220112, (58,87), root:(1242,107), state 0x2010, keycode 113 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" When I press Alt Gr on my Linux desktop, I just get the Mode_switch keysyms. When I press ö, xev shows that it get's the "odiaresis" keysym just fine and in the characters line it shows the ö. What do I have to do, to get the Alt Gr key to work (most important) and also the umlauts? I'd really like to get a fix on the server side, because (once setup) I'll connect to quite a number of different hosts running all sorts of OS, like HP-UX 11.00, Solaris and Linux. I don't know if all of these machines have xmodmap installed. Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.biz | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.biz - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 2 days 5 hours 21 minutes