Re: RightAlt Key behaviour (was: Bug in "Edit")

Hello Alain,

It seems that <Ctrl> + <Alt> can be used in place of <AltGr> on keyboards
that don't provide <AltGr>.

Henrique

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alain" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: RightAlt Key behaviour (was: [fd-dev] Bug in "Edit")


> Hi Aitor,
>
> > Just one thing: for a long time, some people believed that this is a bug
> > on xkeyb, but it proved to be a bug in Edit.
>
> ;-)
>
> > Along the same lines, I have been made this request as a possible with
> > for xkeyb: make RightAlt behave "as leftAlt", or as I understood, making
> > RightAlt behave as LeftAlt, as (I was told) happens in US style
keyboards.
> > I don't quite understand what I am being requested, I think the idea is
> > that one could trigger the menus by pressing RightAlt+F, not only
> > LeftAlt+F. Bearing in mind that this would automatically disable the
> > "third character in a key" feature, I can't get what I am supposed to
> > do. As I understand it, if a program wants to check the Alt-pressing
> > status, it would look in the appropriate BIOS variables (0040h:0017h,
> > 0040h:0096h, etc), so as I see it, there's nothing I can do about this,
> > unless this means that my int9h has to cheat BIOS and tell that LeftAlt
> > was pressed whenever RightAlt was pressed...
>
> I don't know where the request comen from, but I can point that:
>
> 1) RightAlt was introduced lated (in AT) and can only be checked
> independently with the extended interface. Both keys _should_ set
> the same bit in the standard interface, but it has a few bug sometimes.
>
> 2) small keyboards don't _have_ a RightAlt. BUT some people write
> sw believing that every machine is just like theirs and will never change.
> If you have a sw that says RightAlt+Y and your keyboard just doesn't
> have it?
>
> Alain
>
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