ALT just opens start menu (Was: SHIFT+ALT != ALT+SHIFT)

>>>>> Gal Goldschmidt <[email protected]>:

> There is a simple workaround 
> xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Alt_L"

One problem I've had with rdesktop on different linux installations on
Dell laptops, with Norwegian keyboards, going back to 2005, is that the
ALT key hasn't worked.  Pressing ALT, has just opened the start menu.

The above workaround hasn't worked for me, but on Friday I tried
 xmodmap -e "keysym Meta_L = Alt_L"

and _that_ worked.  The ALT key works as expected in an rdesktop
window.  And so far I haven't seen any ill sideeffects in other
windows. 

My current platform, is:
	Intel Pentium M,
	Ubuntu 08.04 (but the behaviour was the same on 7.10),
	Norwegian keyboard,
	Gnome desktop (vanilla Ubuntu installation),
	rdesktop 1.5.0-3+cvs20071006


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