Re: off topic, keys in Mac
Mon, 18 May 2009 (15:26 +0200 UTC) Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>>>> "robert" == robert delius royar
<xemacs(a)frinabulax.org> writes:
Hello,
Thanks for you information.
>>
>> 2 the fn key say as anther modifier, say hyper?
>>
>> either in native, but running X11 or in the virtual machine
>>
>> Uwe Brauer
> I think the answer may depend on the type of Apple laptop (MacBook,
> IBook, PowerBook) and the OS version (e.g. 10.4 or 10.5). The OS
> version affects (probably) whether you are running XFree X11.app or
> X.org X11.app.
Well it is a MacBook Air, first edition 64 Giga flash hard drive.
The Air keyboard may have a right-hand Enter rather than an
extra Alt/Option key. My PowerBook keyboard is like that.
> The x11-user list http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/x11-users
> is your friend.
> All that said, for my non-notebook iMac 10.5.6 system running the latest
> X.org server and xquartz, XQuartz 2.3.3_rc5 (xorg-server 1.5.3-apple6),
> I have the following in my .Xmodmap (which works):
> clear Shift
> clear Lock
> clear Control
> clear Mod1
> clear Mod2
> clear Mod3
> clear Mod4
> clear Mod5
> add Shift = Shift_L Shift_R
> add Lock = Caps_Lock
> add Control = Control_L
> add Mod1 = Alt_L
> add Mod2 = Meta_L
> add Mod3 = Mode_switch
> add Mod4 = Super_R
> add Mod5 = Hyper_R
That looks very interesting but that hyper and super keys, where are the
physically? On the left or right of the space key?
On the iMac, the Super_R is right-hand Alt/Option and Hyper_R is
right-hand control. In my haste I forgot the following commands that
are also in my ~/.Xmodmap
keycode 69 = Super_R
keycode 70 = Hyper_R
keycode 71 = Mode_switch
I found the keycodes with xev. My PowerBook could not assign different
values to Left/Right versions of keys. I have 10.4 on it. I do not
know whether that was ahardware or OS restriction.
> Note, there exists a race condition on startup with the beta X
> server I use which means that on some machines (my iMac G5 being
> one) the ~/.Xmodmap will not install at startup. I have to
> remember to run xmodmap by hand after start. The non-beta Apple X
> server does not have that problem.
Well that is minor thing, I still have to do this for my Kubuntu
Installation.
Uwe
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