From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Klaus Zeitler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: AltGr on german keyboard not working in Xemacs 21.1/Solaris Date: 28 Apr 2003 08:05:29 +0200 Organization: Lucent Technologies Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <8cdb0da1.0304250050.b7a268d@posting.google.com> <84sms5e51j.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051510570 26137 80.91.224.249 (28 Apr 2003 06:16:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 06:16:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 08:16:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19A1vs-0006nQ-00 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:16:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19A1vJ-0003oZ-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 02:15:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newshosting.com!news-xfer2.atl.newshosting.com!uunet!dca.uu.net!netnews.proxy.lucent.com!news Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sfsw51.de.lucent.com X-Antipastobozoticataclysm: Bariumenemanilow User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112435 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8933 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8933 >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann writes: Kai> Kai> andreas@spengler-netz.de (Andreas Spengler) writes: >> (although I am not aware of any changes I made ;-)) since a few days, >> my AltGr key (German keyboard) is not working anymore in Xemacs under >> Solaris. Kai> Kai> This is the Emacs crowd here, to talk to the XEmacs folks you should Kai> look round the corner, in comp.emacs.xemacs. Kai> >> I use this Solaris machine by sshing from a Linux laptop and noticed >> that in contrast to a friend's computer with the same configuration my >> xmodmap configuration shows no "Mode_switch" setting. then I'd say it can't possibly work and it shouldn't work anywhere else e.g. in a xterm. Did you try to add one to your xmodmaprc file? Do you know xkeycaps, that might help you for keyboard selection/modification. >> However on the Linux machine itself xemacs works without a flaw... now I'm puzzled. Do you say you login on your Linux PC and xmodmap settings are ok, but they change when you ssh to your Solaris workstation from there? Kai> Well, Mode_switch means that you can type <"> Kai> (three key presses in succession) to get ä. I think. Is this what Kai> you want? Is this what happens? Isn't that the Multi_key you're talking about? I think with Mode_switch you get, if assigned the columns 3 and 4 of a key's definition. Klaus -- ------------------------------------------ | Klaus Zeitler Lucent Technologies | ------------------------------------------ --- There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain. -- Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800