On Thursday 11 September 2003 12:18, Ph Legay wrote:
> Frank Murphy wrote:
> > On Friday 05 September 2003 12:56, Ph Legay wrote:
> > Well, the modifier that it sees is Alt_L. You want it to see Mode_shift.
> > You can cause this to happen by putting this into your .Xmodmap file:
> >
> > keysym Alt_L = Mode_switch
> >
> > Then run `xmodmap .Xmodmap` and the left alt key should generate
> > Mode_switch and you can get your characters.
>
> OK, Thanks. You have rights. Everty thing is perfect.
Great! Glad to hear that it works.
> "Just to be a little less dummy", Is there a way to say to X keyboard
> that "Alt_L = Mode_switch" in the configuration file. In other words
> where are the modifiers defined ? in one file or in several files ?
I assume that you mean in the system Xkb configuration files. On Debian,
they're in /etc/X11/xkb/, but I think the default is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb.
Under symbols, there are the files that define how X maps keycodes to
keysyms. In these files, you'll see lines like this:
key <RALT> { [ Mode_switch, Multi_key ] };
They define how to get Mode_switch.
Frank
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