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From: Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] [Fwd: Alt Gr Key for French keyboard]
Date: Tue,  9 Dec 2003 09:14:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c17962ae21e39e404d293dce53fef122@plan9.escet.urjc.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004b01c3bdd9$d005cda0$64844051@SOMA>

>> Now, while looking at  the file /sys/src/cmd/usb/hid/kbd.c I was
>> trying to enter the pound sign # while holding Alt Gr key and
>> pressing the "3" key but it just gave me the character "3".
>
> this is well known. iirc both alt and alt-gr generate 'compose'
> and then you can type an arbitrary Rune. this is just wrong.

With the change in /sys/src/9/pc/kbd.c that comes along with usbhid kbd
you get AltGr generated for the right alt instead of Compose.
Perhaps you didnt integrate that change into your kernel.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-09  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-08 21:03 Country Joe
2003-12-08 22:22 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-09  8:14   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros [this message]
2003-12-09  8:17 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros

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