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Not on all international keyboards
Authored by: dani++ on Jan 13, '03 03:36:07PM
Well, that particular trick does not apply to Spanish keyboards as the system-supplied Espanol.keymapping did not work on XDarwin on the first place.

I did build an xmodmap file by hand (thanks to the helpful 'xve' command that prints X11 events to STDOUT). This worked like a charm on XDarwin and I promptly forgot about the issue. The problems begin using Apple's X11 as it does not seem to recognize some char symbols ('periodcentered' for example) and specially does not recognize the 'Alt' modifier key. Issuing a 'xmodmap -xpm' prints the modifier key setup:

xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x40), Shift_R (0x44) lock Caps_Lock (0x41) control Control_L (0x43), Control_R (0x46) mod1 Alt_L (0x42), Alt_R (0x45) mod2 Meta_L (0x3f) mod3 mod4 mod5
There seems to be no special problem with it (0x42 is the keycode of the left alt key) but Apple's X11 stubbornly refuses to accept it.

dani++

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