Alt Gr key troubles in FreeBSD

[nocturnal]

Hi

I'm sorry for the late reply but i thought i had sent you an e-mail when 
actually i had not.

I tried all the things you mentioned and i discovered that the problem 
can easily be reproduced in any application. It's simply a matter of me 
not letting go of the shift key fast enough. I reproduce it by typing 
any number of characters in caps with the shift key down and then 
directly switching to pressing the alt gr key and hitting the 8 
character for example in order to produce the [ character on Swedish 
keyboards. This is when the output becomes silent and nothing happens.

I tried on a co-workers computer which runs Windows and it's the same on 
that system. It's been a while since i properly used the Windows system 
so i had forgotten that it was like that there to.

No reply is required to this thread as i have found out that this is 
just the way the driver works on both FreeBSD and Windows systems. So i 
have my answers.



Med vänliga hälsningar

Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal
[Swehack] http://swehack.se


Erik Nørgaard wrote:
> nocturnal wrote:
> 
>> Well i usually use vim and it's hard to know if it happens in other
>> applications, because i use vim so much compared to the other
>> applications and also because i mostly write those characters in vim. I
>> do use FreeBSD at home to and i can't remember any problems from writing
>> e-mails or chatting on irc. I use rxvt for all my terminal applications.
>> Of course this could simply mean i don't use those characters much in
>> those applications. I used to use nedit, before vim, and i am sure i had
>> the same problem in nedit.
> 
> Well, could you to narrow in on the problem try and test these things?
> 
> 0th: Tell us your keyboard settings in XF86Config (model and layout)
> 
> 1st: List the characters that you have problem with - obviously you need
> a computer that doesn't suffer this problem :)
> 
> 2nd: Try to type all these characters with the correct key-combinations,
> 
> - In the console
> - In xterm
> - In vi (not vim)
> - In xemacs/emacs
> - In firefox or thunderbird - any place you can type
> 
> Then maybe someone can point you closer to the solution.
> 
> Cheers, Erik