Re: Gnus v5.6.24 is released

[amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> Aaron M Ucko writes:
> 
> > Um, pretty much all the Sun keyboards I've seen have been Type 4 or 5
> > keyboards hence had both meta (diamond) and alt keys.
> 
> Take a good look at a Sun 3 type keyboard sometime.

Easier said than done these days.

> > OTOH, IBM and SGI keyboards all seem to use the PC101 layout,
> 
> None of the dozen or so SGIs or RS/6000s I maintain have "Windows" keys.

Hence PC101 rather than PC104.

> CDE is not a window manager.  Motif (mwm) is a window manager that uses
> ALT.  So do many FVWM configurations.  So do many of the variety of other
> "twm" window managers.  Enlightenment does it; so does AfterStep.

Yes, but the original question was whether M-tab is safe, which is a
function of WM configuration.  CDE-like configurations typically bind
M-tab; many others don't.  At any rate, no WM I've seen messes with
keycode -> keysym translations, which are the X server's
responsibility; I think you're just confused because many WMs pretend
Mod1 is always Meta, even though it's sometimes Alt when they are
distinct.

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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)