On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:18:56 +0100, Simon Ruderich wrote: > My problem is now that some characters (like the curly brace) can > only be typed by using the alt-key. But if I press the alt-key and 8 > for example then the console changes from this: > livecd root # > To this: > (arg: 8) > And I don't know what this means. > Is there anything I can do to get the alt-key working?
This is nothing to do with the iBook hardware, my AMD64 box does it too. The Alt key works but Alt-n giving (arg: n) appears to be a feature of bash, although there's no reference to the Alt key in the bash manpage. -- Neil Bothwick In the begining, there was nothing.
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