Make the Alt key work in OpenOffice103 and X11Beta3
Jul 08, '03 10:35:00AM
Contributed by: Hulot
I really appreciate the big effort from the OOo.org mac porting team to release the GM of OpenOffice for X11. I expericened one annoying bug: The alt/option key does not work as intended. You cannot activate the menus form the OOo with Alt. The problem is X11 and not OOo. Here is my solution:
- Open xterm/Terminal in X11
- Type pico to start the pico editor
- Type this code:
clear Mod1
keycode 66 = Alt_L
keycode 69 = Alt_R
add Mod1 = Alt_L
add Mod1 = Alt_R
- Enter Control-O to save this as .xmodmap in your home folder (/users -> username -> .xmodmap).
- Use Control-X to quit pico
- Quit X11
- Restart X11 and start OpenOffice.org 103
If you'd like to revert to the default X11Beta keys, remove .xmodmap from your home folder.
I think the X11 standard generally use Apple Option key as a compose key for entering foreign and special characters, and so does the default setting in X11Beta3.
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