On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 04:49:29PM EST, roberto wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > <and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > >> well, running showkey as root from vt1 gives me: > >> 0x64 0xe4 > >> > >> so the kernel recognizes the key but anyway it does not work under X > >> (kdm is the manager for kde 3.5) > > > > now try xev in an xterm and see what output you get for the alt key. > > > > i get the following output: > > KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4c00001, > root 0x58, subw 0x0, time 167180255, (332,-16), root:(336,306), > state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: > XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: > XFilterEvent returns: False > > KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4c00001, > root 0x58, subw 0x0, time 167180340, (332,-16), root:(336,306), > state 0x80, keycode 113 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen > YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: > XFilterEvent returns: False
Basically says that your Alt key is mapped to AltGr. Try: $ xmodmap - keycode 113 = Alt_R Ctrl+D¹ And check whether your Alt key is working again. CJ ¹ Followed by a dash, xmodmap reads your commands form stdin. After remapping your Alt key, you need to hit the Control and the D keys simulataneously to tell xmodmap that you're done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
