On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:21:14 +0900, Leif Gregory wrote:
> I've never heard of an AltGr key before in my life until about two
> weeks ago when I got my new (English) laptop and low and behold, there
> is an AltGr key on it.
> What is it for? It seems to function just like the ALT key on the left
> of my spacebar.
I wonder if your keyboard driver really supports AltGr. AltGr is
basically a shortcut for Ctrl-Alt and is pretty different from Alt
alone. On my keyboard (Swiss German) all the Alt-Something shortcuts
don't work with AltGr (except Ctrl-AltGr-Del). If AltGr alone
highlights the menu bar it is a plain Alt...
The character for the AltGr level is usually printed in the lower
right corner of a key. A short sketch of the keys '3' and '4' on my
keyboard where AltGr-3 is '#' and AltGr-4 is not defined:
+---+ +---+
|* | |� |
|3 #| |4 |
+---+ +---+
HTH
Peter
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