META keypress wrapped by SHIFT keypress/release on Solaris

[Sean Kamath]

[In a message on Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:12:00 GMT,
  Tristan Richardson wrote:]
>The keyboard layout used by Xvnc 4 is taken from a fairly standard Linux 
>keyboard layout, in which "meta" is the shifted version of "alt".  Hence 
>Xvnc is generating a shifted "alt" when it gets sent a "meta".

Aiehgh.  I've been Linuxed again.

>If you want "meta" to be a separate key you can change the keyboard 
>layout using xmodmap or edit the source code appropriately.  Xvnc should 
>then generate whatever key you've set up to be "meta".
>
>Hope this helps!

Yeah, kinda.  xmodmap -e 'keycode 64 = Meta_L' allows me to use one
key as the Meta key -- only, it's the wrong key.  I unassigned both
Alt_L and Meta_L, and running xev the X server will reassign keys 252
and 253 to Meta_L and Alt_L.  Oddly, even if I switch them, well, I
can NEVER make the Meta key be the Meta key (the keycap on the key the
X server wants to call the meta key has the word 'alt' on
it. . . Sigh.

Anyway, yes, un-assigning Alt_L from the key resolves the issue.

Thanks for the help!

Sean