keyboard under XF4?

[Kostas Gewrgiou]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Michel Lanners wrote:

>
> Hi list,
>
> This might not really be a -dev issue, but I need help anyway ;-)
>
> I've set up my swiss-french keyboard under XF4; works partly...
>
> What doesn't work is characters I need to type with the <alt> modifier;
> they somehow get 0x80 added to the keysym before it is delivered to an
> app.
>
> xev shows the correct charcter map, keysym etc. However, it's wrong once
> it appears in eg. an xterm: hitting <alt>3 should produce '#' (keysym
> 0x23), but in xterm the result is '£' (keysym 0xa3).
>
> Any idea? FWIW, I'm using xmodmap to set the mapping under X. Also,
> console is OK, so it's really an X issue...
>

  Can you send me the xmodmap file so i can look at it ? it might be a
problem in xf4 the 0x80 sounds very strange...

   Kostas


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