This is a followup for Debian bug 286517. http://bugs.debian.org/286517
> > I just double checked the keyboard shortcuts preferences editor, and it > > doesn't have Right-Alt bound to anything else. Also, I'm not running > > the keyboard layout switching applet. Curiously, if I try to create a > > keyboard shortcut using the Right-Alt key, it sees it as a basic key, > > "Alt_R", not a modifier key. If I use the Keyboard Preferences applet > > to enable the "Alt and Meta on the Alt keys" option, then the keyboard > > shortcut applet sees Right-Alt as Alt, but metacity still exhibits the > > bug described above. > > > > Also, other gnome applications see Right-Alt as Alt. For example, both > > Alt-F and Right-Alt-F open the File menu in Gnumeric. Even emacs > > accepts both Alt and Right-Alt as Meta. So I'm still inclined to put > > the blame on Metacity. Hi, It's been a long time since this bug was filed, is it still relevant? On my system, metacity 2.18 happily accepts both Alt_R and Alt_L, as long as Alt_R isn't set as something else, like ISO_Level3_Shift. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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