On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:34:48 -0400, I wrote: > I am repeatedly losing modifier-key function. > > I run an up-to-date Lenny system and use the window manager fvwm (2.5.26-1) > so that I can mostly work from the command line. I also have a virtual XP > machine (VM, VMware 1.06). > > If I use the VM for a few minutes (usually Photoshop, sometimes Acrobat), I > find that SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT no longer modify what I enter in the Linux > window. For example, CTRL-c, ALT-c, and SHIFT-c all just send `c'.
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:37:01 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West <and...@farwestbilliards.com> replied: > I think you should be running > xmodmap -e "shift = Shift_L" > instead. Try that and see then if it assigns Shift_L to the shift modifier. That gave an error, but this succeeded: xmodmap -e "add shift = Shift_L" and in fact restored shift function nicely. An analogous line for the control function works too, but this: xmodmap -e "add alt = Alt_L Meta_L" failed with xmodmap: commandline:1: bad add modifier name 'alt', not allowed xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting. "add meta" didn't work either. No matter; I don't use Alt much from the command line anyway, although it would be a way to get non-ASCII characters. > I think it's surely a bug somewhere, as this shouldn't be > happening. Have you searched the BTS for possible clues? I searched just for "modifier keys" and didn't find it. Thanks again. I now have a fix that's good enough for what I need. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
