Re: Awkward alt-key problem...
On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:08:51 -0600 Morgan Gangwere 0.fracta...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy y'all I've been using CrunchBang 10 (so squeeze with some branding) and I've run into a subtle problem. I'm running on a (really old) Dell Latitude C600. Aside from the occasional issue with the video (Which is because, despite the fact that there's 8MB of video ram, 16MB is reported), the only problem I've had as of late is the Latitude keyboard layout apparently is intended as an international layout? I use irssi a lot and when I use the Alt-(num) to swap between windows I get... Funky characters. That is, I get subscript 2 for alt-2, subscript 3 for alt-3, mu for alt-4, etc... And it gets rather irritating. I have my /etc/defaults set to: XKBLAYOUT=latitude XKBVARIANT=us I don't know the solution, but I know a workaround : if I remember correctly, I had this issue on a BSD system and Escape + number worked ok. YMMV. -- Rares Aioanei debian.dev.list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100907095402.b2f3be85.debian.dev.l...@localhost.localdomain
Re: Awkward alt-key problem...
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:54:02 +0300 Rares Aioanei debian.dev.l...@gmail.com wrote stuff... Here's the thing... I don't want this to happen. I use my Alt-Keys to be... well /alt keys/, not symbols. -- Morgan Gangwere There is a light at the end of the tunnel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100907082004.7af15...@snapdragon
Re: Awkward alt-key problem...
I use irssi a lot and when I use the Alt-(num) to swap between windows I get... Funky characters. That is, I get subscript 2 for alt-2, subscript 3 for alt-3, mu for alt-4, etc... And it gets rather irritating. Is this using XTerm? I've got two lines in my ~/.Xresources file which I think are just for situations like this: XTerm*altIsNotMeta: true XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true I hope this helps, Francis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=ye4cw_sdneaq3zdfoi3+6bfwuqqk5yt159...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Awkward alt-key problem...
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:28:10 -0500 francis southern wrote: XTerm*altIsNotMeta: true XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true Wonderful! I guess I'm so used to my URxvt that I'd fallen into the idea that Xterm applied the same rules. :D -- Morgan Gangwere the light at the end of the tunnel is the collided trains. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100907095944.7af30...@snapdragon
Awkward alt-key problem...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy y'all I've been using CrunchBang 10 (so squeeze with some branding) and I've run into a subtle problem. I'm running on a (really old) Dell Latitude C600. Aside from the occasional issue with the video (Which is because, despite the fact that there's 8MB of video ram, 16MB is reported), the only problem I've had as of late is the Latitude keyboard layout apparently is intended as an international layout? I use irssi a lot and when I use the Alt-(num) to swap between windows I get... Funky characters. That is, I get subscript 2 for alt-2, subscript 3 for alt-3, mu for alt-4, etc... And it gets rather irritating. I have my /etc/defaults set to: XKBLAYOUT=latitude XKBVARIANT=us Even if I set this to pc105 and - -- Morgan Gangwere Why? Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages unreadable. Top-Posting is evil. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJMhcjjAAoJEEURiCSotvJDYnkP/RcMP1tmaiNmaedn1LnFOTMY F1eA4L+8PbOsny/fTWlf3kWRKJc4AiJOpBtuapaJLJTOg0enLG//rocs57OBYFfx DswhEnZ84NXsUkt2GmQhZKJ5gWcFHtFM/GW6/LhoB0TU8IgI9hXUNSFS5pcIWzmt SE7/afNHkzU33gMbRyisz1s+kV2MP4cjoSmp/Vqum+NjMRAWTrQrAqlolhRtYWWx RRJ5kbw6l+P69+CD53TVFsox03c/r0igOxbzAVYmvphYAYhNQHRi6tIUvQuYsg8g ImOw8DmewxoNBrdjv6Vd6oNUeS7xYPdAErp4T19bb/X7EZBpFojaBmHt7R+1ORAH /2YmF0GP+Lh4JKNwl347X7vEAElMxYoSut2qfOZfyVAdbjRD9rLbGrtQ5/ofl7jo Cm3nLiStE/7QVlfK28+8ezw51NWHw5b+FUp29/H54e6rjI8rXcrvAXie8nSiYb2W usBHdde1TMYjwsxnotJrkS228+fZV4TZJlPoUlBkq1ZG5Og8MYX9qj26EFUVy3YE JFUVi5uqIMJRdp0v2QT2GFGi8nTqi6uG/bLvysbl/kGNeWI/umrS8RnQbCiep0fF HarGtCLj55HXaNsxovru4tPmhUlLJ50uReFK+Y/rVUHfeAJaDaCjXTM8IUI/+4B8 icNiPLsyQ5XgmODN/Yrp =OPju -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c85c8e3.7060...@gmail.com
