From: Gal Goldschmidt (gal_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Mon 23 Aug 2004 - 16:39:45 IDT
On Monday 23 August 2004 13:49, Peter Åstrand wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> > I've been having a problem for sometime where my ALT key would appear to
> > be "stuck". After building a version of RDesktop with some debug
> > flags, I've figured out what's going on. SHIFT+ALT = META. That is, if
> > I hold SHIFT down and press ALT, then rdesktop thinks a META key has been
> > pressed, but the reverse is not true.
> >
> > Thus, if when I do this:
> >
> > ALT(down)
> > SHIFT(down)
> > ALT(up)
> > SHIFT(up)
> >
> > what gets sent is
> > ALT(down)
> > SHIFT(down)
> > META(up)
> > SHIFT(up).
> >
> > Now, I've poked around to try to understand META more, and been
> > unsuccessful. I suspect that the problem has more to do with my X11 key
> > map than with any rdesktop proper, but as far as I know it's a fairly
> > "standard" keyboard configuration.
>
> When trying "xev" on my Fedora Core 2 workstation, the behaviour is the
> same. I guess this is the way it should be. The problem is probably that
> rdesktop fails to compensate for this.
>
> If you want, submit a bug report to the SF tracker.
I complained about it a long time ago, but I was told it's an X11 "feature".
It's for those poor people who have PC keyboards and not a "real"
Uni* keyboards with Meta_L and Meta_R.
To solve the useless Meta_L just run xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Alt_L",
You can also find the Alt_L = Alt_L, Meta_L in the X11 configs and change it
there.
Gal.
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