In article <87slx02z62.fsf@ryoko.home>, Matti Juhani Kurkela wrote:
> Mikko Nahkola <mnahkola@trein.ntc.nokia.com> writes:
>
>> In article <87fyt5x3z0.fsf@ryoko.home>, Matti Juhani Kurkela wrote:
>>> "Kari Keronen" <kari.keronen@digita.fi> writes:
>
>>>> I am using Reflection X (Windows XP) to connect HP-UX hosts. The problem is
>>>> that when using dtterm I can't get any characters that are behind AltGr key
>>>> (| $ @ etc.). Anyone knows if this is a bug ? Any workarounds ?
>
>>> However, at least XFree86/XOrg xservers seem to have problems with
>>> AltGr when they have to work with software that won't support XKEYBOARD.
>
>>> Looks like the XKEYBOARD-aware xservers build only the first two
>>> levels of keyboard mappings (the unshifted and shifted keys) for the
>>> "classic" protocol. I think the AltGR mappings could be added back
>>> with the xmodmap tool, but I haven't had time to actually try it.
>
> With a bit of googling I found this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=110933
> In this thread, Thierry Lelegard explains how to construct a xmodmap
> file to work around this problem.
>
> I used his instructions to build a xmodmap file for XFree86 4.3 (or
> above) with Finnish keyboard. It is just a quick hack: there are some
> AltGr mappings that ought to have both upper-and lowercased versions,
> but have only the lower case set up at the moment.
>
> A quick test with xterm windows from HP-UX 11.00 and 11.11 displayed
> on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 was a success.
>
> My xmodmap file is available at:
> https://melchior.homelinux.net/xmodmap-compat-fi.txt

Thanks, yes, it does seem to work - I've been otherwise busy elsewhere,
myself. (Reminder: Have to complain to HP about cpio, pax and
fbackup/frecover not being usable when /usr is hosed...)



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