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[Jan Alboszta <address@hidden>]

Hello
Big thanks. Downgrading to xfree86 4.2.1 ofcourse did the trick.

pozdr.
Janek

Dnia Thu, 6 Mar 2003 22:14:37 +0100
Pierre-Henri Jondot <address@hidden> Napisal:

> I am quite sure indeed the remapping being done by xfree86 4.3 is the
> culprit. On my french keyboard, the right alt (alt-gr) was using
> Mode_switch keysym with xfree 4.2, it is now ISO_Level3_Shift.
> 
> Apart from texmacs, I've found that xemacs, wine do not like the new
> mapping(the alt-gr is not useable under wine at all, so it gets
> impossible to input such characters as {, [ and so on...)
> 
> I hadn't tried texmacs with xfree 4.3. I just did and indeed the alt-gr
> key is inactive here too (which makes it almost useless)... I am talking
> of texmacs 1.0.1 too but I guess the problem should be the same with
> more recent releases. 
> 
> Unfortunately, I've no idea of a fix right now (except downgrading to
> xfree 4.2.1 of course). Yet I tried lots of xmodmap combinations, and
> google did not prove very helpful either... (Obviously, only those among
> us that are using alternative keymaps are experiencing trouble with
> xfree 4.3...)
>