Re: Changes in xmodmap or something?

2013-09-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: [...] Sorry but I have no more ideas. I can only say that the behavior you are seeing isn't normal. I don't see it. I believe other people are not seeing it. Whatever the problem is it is something specific to your system. The challenge is to find it.

Re: Changes in xmodmap or something?

2013-09-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: [...] Sorry but I have no more ideas. I can only say that the behavior you are seeing isn't normal. I don't see it. I believe other people are not seeing it. Whatever the problem is it is something specific to your system. The challenge is to find it.

Re: Changes in xmodmap or something?

2013-09-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: [...] I think you have configured AltGr or other modifier without realizing it. I'd like to get things back to what I'm used to but when I start reading xmodmap manpage... I have to hide all my guns so I don't just go ahead and shot myself. ;) I'm used

Re: Changes in xmodmap or something?

2013-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: Bob Proulx writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I have been noticing for some time that my ~/.inputrc key combos don't work. Also the keyboard Alt key doesn't work in emacs if I run it in -nw more (in an xterm). Race condition. I just sent a similar answer to you in the

Re: Changes in xmodmap or something?

2013-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: I've reconfigured the keyboard stuff with dpkg. dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration I configured right alt to be alt_gr as you suggested was a common setup. And good because in your other message you said you rarely used Right Alt for anything. (I sometimes use

Changes in xmodmap or something?

2013-09-20 Thread Harry Putnam
I have been noticing for some time that my ~/.inputrc key combos don't work. Also the keyboard Alt key doesn't work in emacs if I run it in -nw more (in an xterm). I guess some kind of changes over time in the OS setup has happened but I could not nail it down to any particular date... haven't

Re: Changes in xmodmap or something?

2013-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: I have been noticing for some time that my ~/.inputrc key combos don't work. Also the keyboard Alt key doesn't work in emacs if I run it in -nw more (in an xterm). Race condition. I just sent a similar answer to you in the other mailing list. :-) I guess some kind of

Re: Changes in xmodmap or something?

2013-09-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I have been noticing for some time that my ~/.inputrc key combos don't work. Also the keyboard Alt key doesn't work in emacs if I run it in -nw more (in an xterm). Race condition. I just sent a similar answer to you in the other