Beep when pressing help key

Beep when pressing help key

[Tilo Arens]

Hello,

I have recently upgraded my Linux box from SuSE 8.2 to 9.2. An annoying thing 
in Emacs is that since then, when I press the "Alt Gr" key on my (German) 
keyboard, there is a beep. Otherwise, the key works fine. 

This only occurs in emacs, all other applications perform fine. Can anybody 
help?

Best wishes, Tilo Arens
-- 
Dr Tilo Arens
Mathematisches Institut II
Universitaet Karlsruhe
Germany
Tel. +49 (0)721 608 3229

Re: Beep when pressing help key

[Michael Cadilhac]

Tilo Arens <arens@numathics.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have recently upgraded my Linux box from SuSE 8.2 to 9.2. Since
> then, when I press the "Alt Gr" key on my (German) keyboard, there
> is an anoying beep.  Otherwise, the key works fine. Can anybody
> help?
>
> Best wishes, Tilo Arens

  . You can disable all beep with:
    (setq ring-bell-function '(lambda ()))

  . You can set your AltGR key to be an Alt key if you don't use it:
    $ cat .xmodmaprc
    keycode 113 = Alt_L
    $ grep xmodmap .xsession
    xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc

  Anyway, there  must be  a problem somewhere...  Can you show  us the
  content of your *Messages* buffer after a `beep' ?

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Beep when pressing help key

[Tilo Arens]

Hello,

I have recently upgraded my Linux box from SuSE 8.2 to 9.2. Since then, when I 
press the "Alt Gr" key on my (German) keyboard, there is an anoying beep. 
Otherwise, the key works fine. Can anybody help?

Best wishes, Tilo Arens
-- 
Dr Tilo Arens
Mathematisches Institut II
Universitaet Karlsruhe
Germany
Tel. +49 (0)721 608 3229

Re: Beep when pressing help key

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.05.2005 um 12:09 schrieb Tilo Arens:

> I have recently upgraded my Linux box from SuSE 8.2 to 9.2. Since 
> then, when I
> press the "Alt Gr" key on my (German) keyboard, there is an anoying 
> beep.
> Otherwise, the key works fine. Can anybody help?
>

Sure! Try 'xmodmap -pk' to determine your keyboard's new layout under 
X, then make AltGr some modifier. 'xmodmap -pm' will show waht you 
already have. Under the recent circumstances try in GNU Emacs 'C-h k' 
and then press AltGr. Now you know what this key is doing to GNU Emacs.

Here is some syntax for a possible ~/.xmodmaprc:

! (for powerbooks, where enter is next to right Clover)
!!keycode 60 = Meta_R
!!keycode 69 = Meta_R
!!keycode 63 = Alt_L
!!keycode 66 = Meta_L
!!
!!clear Mod1
!!clear Mod2
!!
!!add Mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R
!!add Mod2 = Meta_L Meta_R

In ~/.xinitrc you can put:

xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc

'man xmodmap' should help more.

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