Re: Ma. 3.0.0, Linux, keyboard problem
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- Subject: [mg33243] Re: [mg33209] Ma. 3.0.0, Linux, keyboard problem
- From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh at wolfram.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 18:05:37 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: "Wolfram Research, Inc."
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On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Jens Olav Nygaard wrote:
> Hi there...
> I have a problem with the {[]} keys... The keyboard is international
> (or Norwegian, in particular) and these keys are mapped on a key
> "Alt Gr" to the right of the space bare combined with 7, 8, 9 and 0.
> This works fine in all other applications, but not Mathematica.
>
> This document,
>
> http://library.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/1996/May/msg00124.html
>
> specifies two solutions, but for me, non of them works.
> The XMathematica-modification doesn't help, and the xmodmap-solution
> breaks almost everything. Unfortunately, I don't really grasp the
> workings of xmodmap, so I have difficulties understanding how to
> overcome the problem using that solution, although I imagine it
> would be possible.
>
> Does anybody have a quicker fix than actually digging into xmodmap?
> If so,
You could use XKeyCaps, which is a front end to xmodmap.
http://linux.tucows.com/system/preview/10253.html
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P.J. Hinton
User Interface Programmer paulh at wolfram.com
Wolfram Research, Inc.
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