Meta, Alt, Super: key mapping problems

[Michael W. Lewis]

Hello Hendrik, all,

My Alt_R key is engraved "AltGr". I need it to generate the special 
characters, such as &|}{][\ and so on.

Not having it properly mapped prevents my entering them!!!! (And using xvkbd 
sucks.)

Still no success in making it work and I don't understand why it seems so 
difficult for vnc to pass the right kbd events from a Win client to a Linux 
server.

There appears to be no key mapping functionality on the client side. Is that true?

Rgrds, Mike.
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:22:00 +0100, Hendrik Tews wrote:
> Michael W. Lewis writes:
>    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:45:39 +0100
>    Subject: Re: Meta, Alt, Super: key mapping problems
>    
>    Hello James,
>    
>    The problem with this attempt is that for my keyboard (de_CH),
>    "Alt_R" fails. On my physical keyboard it is named AltGr and
>    xmodmap doesn't recognise Alt_R for me (and maybe Hendrik too).
>    
> If your keyboard doesn't generate Alt_R then delete all the lines
> that mention Alt_R. Same for Super and probably Meta. Start xev
> outside vnc to see what your keyboard generates and then start it
> inside vnc and compare.
> 
> The suggested xmodmap script works perfectly for me, because I
> kind of statically remap my US windows 104 keyboard. I let the
> Alt keys generate Meta, the windows keys Alt and the menu key
> Super. 
> 
> [I am missing of course a left menu key - I am stuck with having
> only Super_R and lacking Super_L, but for the moment I can deal
> with it.]
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Hendrik