Path: utzoo!attcan!sobeco!onfcanim!zap!matrox!IRO.UMontreal.CA!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!jtkohl From: jtkohl@MIT.EDU (John T Kohl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Ultrix/X (more questions) [compose character vs. meta] Message-ID: Date: 8 Jan 91 14:50:10 GMT References: <1991Jan7.114159@wsl.dec.com> <88897@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: MIT Project Athena Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: sowa@amdew.llnl.gov's message of 8 Jan 91 01:19:11 GMT In article <88897@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik C. Sowa) writes: > When running the new R4 xmh under DECwindows, the meta-key shortcuts do > not work. twm and emacs both use the compose-character key for meta, why > doesn't this work here? Do I need to remake the Athena widgets with some > special attention to this @#$%#%^@$ keyboard? Probably not; try using 'xmodmap' to make the compose-character key into a Meta_L key. However, if you do this, some true DECwindows applications may malfunction if they expect to be able to use/detect a true compose character key. Here's what I use in a file I feed to xmodmap; this works on both DECwindows servers and X11R4 servers (since I use the keycode): ! 177 is the Compose Character key on the LK201 ! this is needed to insure that it's really a meta key keycode 177 = Meta_L keysym comma = comma less keysym period = period greater -- John Kohl or Digital Equipment Corporation/Project Athena (The above opinions are MINE. Don't put my words in somebody else's mouth!)