Hi there, thank you very much for your response. I checked xmodmap and alt keys are setup correctly. It is only GNOME shortcuts involving alt key do not work, applications still get it right. Sergiy On Nov 5, 2007 11:49 PM, f. l. <texlexsex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 11/6/07, Sergiy Kuzmenko <s.kuzmenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I'm using GNOME 2.18.3 on Fedora 7. Somehow all GNOME shortcuts > > involving alt key stopped working (e.g., alt-tab or alt-print). > > Application shortcuts with alt key (e.g., to going back in history in > > Firefox) work fine. If I replace the alt key with something else in > > keyboard shortcuts they start to work (e.g., alt-print -> ctrl-print) > > but changing it back to alt-whatever effectively disables the > > shortcut. Does anyone know how to make GNOME react to keyboard > > shortcuts with alt? Especially alt-tab to switch between apps, as > > there is no option in keyboard shortcuts to change it. > > > > Seems like that your keymaps problem. > I also have some keyboard problem with my xorg. > What you see if you issue an command `xmodmap' in a terminal window? > It should contain one line like this: > mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_L (0x7d), Meta_L (0x9c) > if you dont see `Alt_L' or `Alt_R' , then your left Alt key or right > Alt key may not work > > you can then issue this command to enable both Alt keys: > xmodmap -e 'add mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R' > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
