Re: "Win" key

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On Monday 2007-05-07 14:50:29 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Em Dom 06 Mai 2007, Doncho N. Gunchev escreveu:
> > On Saturday 2007-05-05 05:58:04 oleksandr korneta wrote:
> > > on 05/02/2007 10:22 AM Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> > > > This is a very old bug in XOrg that has not been fixed till now. A
> > > > workaround you may use is adding the following line to the InputDevice
> > > > section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> > > > Option      "XkbOptions" "altwin:meta_win"
> > >
> > > this works indeed Marcelo, thanks a lot. I'll stay with this method
> > > until they fix the bug *hoping*
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Isn't this in bugzilla (I can not find it and hate to do it myself for
> > every system)? 
> 
> It's in xorg's bugzilla, but I don't remember the bug number.

7008

> 
> > Shouldn't this workaround be enabled by default 'till the
> > bug is fixed upstream?
> 
> Maybe it isn't because it has collateral effects depending on the language you use.
> In my case, the right Alt should behave differently from the left one (AltGR, 
> for symbols), and I loose this functionality if I use the workaround above. 
> Instead, I use:
> Option          "XkbOptions" "altwin:left_meta_win"
> With this option I have AltGR on the right Alt key, but then only the left Win 
> key works. Oh, well, I can live with that until the bug is fixed (if it will 
> ever be)...
> Maybe someone more knowledgeable with X configuration can come up with other 
> solution that keeps both AltGR and the two Win keys working. If there is such 
> workaround, I think it should be enabled by default while upstream don't fix 
> the bug.
> 
> []'s
> Marcelo

Filled in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239409

-- 
Regards,
  Doncho


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