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[Lionel Elie Mamane <address@hidden>]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:26:43PM +0200, 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

That would be me?

> 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).

Just as a passing note, the xkb way of doing this would be to add
option "compose:menu". This can be done:

(per user)
 - by running "setxkbmap -option compose:menu"
 - Gnome2 has a GUI for that
(system-wide)
 - adding 
        OPtion          "XkbOptions"    "altwin:left_meta_win"
   to the keyboard InputDevice option of XF86Config-4

> Is there any way to have texmacs understand this multi-key?

The only hint I can give is the one in my Debian bug report: Try
fiddling with "input methods", that solved the problem for
gnome-terminal. When I told it to use ("open") the "Input Method" (in
the preferences), it started working.

-- 
Lionel