- From: Ralf Treinen <address@hidden>
- To: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
- Cc: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] using the X compose key
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:01:32 +0200
Hi Joris,
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 05:25:09PM +0200, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
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On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Ralf Treinen wrote:
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> I have a user complaining about the following problem: He has configured
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> X such that his multi-key is not identical to any of the modifier keys
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> (shift, control, alt, etc.). For instance, on my keyboard,
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> I have an otherwise completeley useless "menu" key between the right
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> windows keys and the right control key which I can use for this purpose,
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> by setting
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> xmodmap -e "keycode 117 = Multi_key"
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> (117 is the keycode of this menu button). Now, I can use this menu
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> button as a compose key in an X Terminal, but not in TeXmacs. Is
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> there any way to have texmacs understand this multi-key? One possible
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> solution would be to have TeXmacs accept the mult-key as an alias for
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> Alternate, in case it is not already identical to any of the other
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> recognized modifiers. How can this be achieved?
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You should read the documentation about configuring the keyboard.
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Help -> Configuration -> Keyboard modifiers
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That said, I actually do not fully understand the way X deals with
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keyboard modifiers myself. The system seems to be quite complicated,
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dependent on the version of X, and very unstable as a function of
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the actual keyboard being used. If someone is willing to reshape
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the way TeXmacs deals with keyboard modifiers in a correct and
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more comprehensive way, then I will be happy to integrate such work...
Thanks for your answer. I know this page, but it doesn't help in
this case. The problem is that, apparently, the Multi-key is not
considered as a key modifier (for instance, it does not show up
in the listing that you get from the xmodmap command). It is
something else, but I don't understand either what it is.
-Ralf.
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