Comment 45 for bug 6877

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:19:52 -0500
From: Branden Robinson <email address hidden>
To: Nathan Poznick <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#255216: Got right alt working as well

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On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 06:57:33PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote:
>=20
> I got the right alt key to stop experiencing the "stuck" behavior by
> making this further change to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/pc (on top of the
> patch Branden sent out earlier). With Branden's patch and this, both of
> my alt keys work normally again.
>=20
> --- etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/pc 2004-06-27 18:54:35.000000000 -0500
> +++ etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/pc.new 2004-06-27 18:55:01.000000000 -05=
00
> @@ -182,8 +182,8 @@
> key <MDSW> { [ Mode_switch ] };
> modifier_map Mod5 { <LVL3>, <MDSW> };
>=20
> - key <ALT> { [ NoSymbol, Alt_L ] };
> - modifier_map Mod1 { <ALT>, <LALT> };
> + key <ALT> { [ NoSymbol, Alt_L, Alt_R ] };
> + modifier_map Mod1 { <ALT>, <LALT>, <RALT> };
>=20
> key <META> { [ NoSymbol, Meta_L ] };
> modifier_map Mod1 { <META> };

I don't think we can apply this for reasons mentioned in the mailing list
thread[1], but for systems that don't have complex keyboard layouts in use,
I don't discourage people from modifying this conffile as you have.

[1] Message-ID: <1087743956.3240.22.camel@seb128>
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/06/msg00471.html

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