Re: FVWM: Mandrake 9.1 Meta_L weirdness

From: Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 16:14:34 +0100 (BST)

 --- Norvell Spearman <norvell_at_houseofspearman.org> wrote:
> fvwm-2.5.7
> Mandrake 9.1
> XFree86-4.3
>
> After upgrading to Mandrake 9.1, I've noticed that when I hit
> <LeftAlt>+<Tab> the window list goes away as soon as I release <Tab>,
> but if I hit <RightAlt>+<Tab> the window list stays up 'til I hit <Esc>
> or select a window. I've tried changing some seemingly relevant
> settings in various files under /etc/X11 but nothing has had any effect.
> Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks much.

I haven't experienced this, but there are two things I can think of:

The first is that the right alt button, might be a modifier under fvwm.

The other thing to do is to use xmodmap to reflect the same behaviour as
the left alt key (xkeycaps comes in handy here).

HTH,

Thomas Adam

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Thomas Adam

"The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- www.linuxgazette.com

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Received on Mon Jul 14 2003 - 10:16:44 BST

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