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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> I have a user complaining about the following problem: He has configured
> X such that his multi-key is not identical to any of the modifier keys
> (shift, control, alt, etc.). For instance, on my keyboard,
> I have an otherwise completeley useless "menu" key between the right
> windows keys and the right control key which I can use for this purpose,
> by setting
>
> xmodmap -e "keycode 117 = Multi_key"
>
> (117 is the keycode of this menu button). Now, I can use this menu
> button as a compose key in an X Terminal, but not in TeXmacs. Is
> there any way to have texmacs understand this multi-key? One possible
> solution would be to have TeXmacs accept the mult-key as an alias for
> Alternate, in case it is not already identical to any of the other
> recognized modifiers. How can this be achieved?

You should read the documentation about configuring the keyboard.

        Help -> Configuration -> Keyboard modifiers

That said, I actually do not fully understand the way X deals with
keyboard modifiers myself. The system seems to be quite complicated,
dependent on the version of X, and very unstable as a function of
the actual keyboard being used. If someone is willing to reshape
the way TeXmacs deals with keyboard modifiers in a correct and
more comprehensive way, then I will be happy to integrate such work...

Best wishes, Joris