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[Marten Bauer <address@hidden>]

Am Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2003 11:20 schrieb Klaus-Dieter Möller:
> Hi,
>
> I've tested a lot but I can't get the Alt-Gr-Key to work properly on a
> german keyboard. In all other programs Alt-Gr does work.
> Please let me know if there is a way to make it work.
Hello, 
this is not a problem of Texmacs. I have got the same problem with SuSE 8.2 / 
Logitech itouch keyboard. When you open a console and press ALT-GR and '+' 
then there is also not '~'. In the kde console the ALT-GR Key also do not 
work.
It's a problem of the new xserver version. I solved the problem once, but 
until now I could not exactly recognize how. I tell you my way.

You must modify the xmodmap (keyboard mapping).
First you can start 'xev' in an console and press 'ALT-GR' to get the ksym of 
the ALT-GR key.
Then you must write something like this:
xmodmap -e 'keysym=0xff7e Mode_switch' .
0xff7e is the keysm code in my case.

Once it worked on my SuSE 8.2 but when i tried it again it is never working.
I used SuSE 8.2 on several computers but only on my home computer the problem 
appears.

I hope I could help you a little bit. I can only give you this hint, because 
on my other System (Debian Sarge) it works. But there is an older xfree 
running.

Bye the way
Marten