Comment 22 for bug 6970

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 02:08:29 -0500
From: Branden Robinson <email address hidden>
To: Pete Harlan <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#254923: xserver-xfree86: [keyboard] alt key not working

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On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:38:56PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:57:58 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 is now in unstable. Do they keys work for
> > you now?
>=20
> Yes, thank you, I no longer can reproduce the problem where the first
> use of Alt, Meta, etc. per login session is ignored.

Excellent.

> I do still have the problem where in an xterm (but not an Emacs
> window) I have to press Alt+Windows to get the effect of Alt.
>=20
> Because nobody else appears to be having this latter problem (I got no
> response about it on Debian-user), I'm thinking I might just purge all
> X packages and reinstall them to see if it goes away. I don't know of
> any way my setup is nonstandard, but obviously not everyone is having
> the problem.

Actually, we know of continuing problems with some of the modifier keys,
and we are working to get a good solution in place. It's a lot more
complicated than you'd think, and simply reverting the change that was made
in -5 has its drawbacks.

> If you'd rather I didn't purge/binge, let me know.

No, please go ahead if you like. I don't think it will help anything, but
it probably won't hurt either.

Thanks for following up!

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