Re: German keyboard event bug on debian 4.0?

[Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>]

"Andrea Vettorello" <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com> writes:

> On 7/30/07, Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> wrote:
>> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> I found the tool xev and it shows (below on an aterm) that there is no
>> "}" event when typing ALT + AltGr and }.  I think I have to ask some
>> debian mailing list.
>>
>
> What's the output of "xmodmap -pke | grep -i alt"?

dieter@debby:/usr/bin/X11$ xmodmap -pke | grep -i alt
keycode  64 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode 125 = NoSymbol Alt_L

> I suspect that in your layout at least one of the Alt (Meta) keys is
> missing the Shift modifier...

I do not quite understand, to reach the "{" on a German keyboard I do
not need a Shift key.  But don't mind, I'm clueless anyway ;-).

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany