On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:23:05PM +0100, Roland Hautz wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Dominik Vogt wrote:
>
> > I don't think so. Run
> >
> > $ xmodmap -pm
>
> ~>xmodmap -pm
> xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
>
> shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
> lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
> control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d)
> mod1 Alt_L (0x40), BadKey (0x7d), BadKey (0x9c)
> mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
> mod3
> mod4 Super_L (0x73), BadKey (0x7f), Super_R (0x74)
> mod5 Mode_switch (0x5d), ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c)
>
> > and
> >
> > $ xmodmap -pke
>
> ~>xmodmap -pke | egrep '(Alt)|(Meta)|(Shift)'
> keycode 50 = Shift_L
> keycode 62 = Shift_R
> keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L
> keycode 113 = ISO_Level3_Shift Multi_key
> keycode 124 = ISO_Level3_Shift
> keycode 125 = NoSymbol Alt_L
> keycode 156 = NoSymbol Meta_L
>
> > . This displays which modifiers are defined and which keys
> > generate them. The Shift_... or Alt_... key is probably
> > configured in an odd way.
>
> OK, shift+alt is producing Meta_L. But I expected applications including
> fvwm would interpret Alt and Meta as synonyms?
Yes, it does. Your problem occurs because fvwm can not decide
whether it should have expected Shift pressed for the Alt_L key or
not. To understand the problem, consider this:
Some keyboards map Shift-F1 to F11. Now, what does this binding
mean?
Key F11 A S something
Does this apply to Shift-F1?
Unfortunately it's not possible to find out exactly which key was
pressed with which modifiers held, so all you can do is guess. In
fvwm, I decided to ignore the "S" in this binding and treat it
exactly like
Key F1 A S something
Key F11 S something
This can have some funny results in some exotic cases like yours.
I'd like to fix it, but doing so will inadvertedly break other
cases.
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Mon Feb 23 2004 - 07:04:38 GMT