On Monday 21 March 2011 09:51:12 Dirk Wallenstein wrote: Thank you for your response. Btw. I am subscriber, no need to CC.
> Hm, I hope I did understand correctly. You want to use the Alt key > to generate characters and not use any of the desktop functionality > tied to it. That's right. > If clients interpret Alt and Meta alike, you have to > use another way. It didn't happen in years. > Do you have a national layout available that > produces all the chars you want with ISO_Level3_Shift (aka AltGr)? With ISO_Level3_Shift, yes. With AltGr -- no. This is the whole point, to get rid of it. > If so you can simply put that modifier onto the Alt key. I am exactly asking for this -- how to do it? Three remarks: a) I would prefer modify keycode table file (previously xfree86) because this way, all layouts would see alt-key as meta. b) the reason for my "odd" request is this: being forced to press right Alt-key only to get national characters is so weird for me, that I decided to use both Alt-keys to produce those characters. But Alt (symbol) is hardcoded in X11 to get accelerators. Because of that I have to move that symbol somewhere else. The perfect place is CapsLock. So now, I would have Alt-symbol on CapsLock-key, and Meta-symbol on both Alt-keys. So I would have symmetric keyboard, 100% functionality and much more productive layout, I used it for years, and it proved its quality. No wonder, I would like to still use it in openSUSE 11.4. c) I learned how to make a dump of the layout to take a peek how X11 sees my layout. Both Alt-key entries were divided for Group1 and Group2. Group1 looks like from X11 original symbol file (pc) and Group2 is coming from me. So it looks like I am only able to add symbols, not redefine keys -- despite they fact I used "replace" keyword in definition. But if I could alter keycodes (see (a)), this would solve this problem. Kind regards, _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
