2009/12/10 James Wilde <james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com>: > > On Dec 10, 2009, at 08:27 , Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg > wrote: > >> >> >> Hmm... In that case it must be either my Sun Keyboard or the Sunray >> rdesktop remote session that is preventing it for me. ^_- >> > > I think the big money would be on the second one, Thomas. There was a time > when I was connecting to several machines via remote desk top or vnc and > similar, and in some combinations I was unable to type any of the Alt-Gr key > combinations. The only way I found to resolve this was to have a small text > file on the remote machines, containing all the symbols I used most often, > and have it permanently open on the remote machine so I could quickly copy > and paste. One such was the bar, |, which is a Alt-Gr combination on the > swedish keyboard. Imagine typing 'ps -ef | grep <command> a hundred times a > day with no bar!
As I said, it's not a very hard work to make your own keyboard layout in Linux. I did and I have the ”|” at Shift+/. The ”/” is located where normal layouts has ”7” (I keep all my numbers at the numerical part of the keyboard and nowhere else). And yes, I have a Swedish keyboard. Johnny Rosenberg > > A similar solution might be to have the remote machines character list > visible, assuming that the character table includes all characters and not > just, say, extended ascii. > > Having said that, if you've connected your Sun keyboard to a PC then you may > have problems there, too. > > //James > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
