Re: [Usability] Using the right ALT button

["Maurizio Colucci" <maurizio colucci gmail com>]

On 11/24/06, Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev yandex ru> wrote:

В Чтв, 23/11/2006 в 19:57 +0100, Maurizio Colucci пишет:
> Hi,
>
> this might sound weird but in Gnome (2.16.1, ubuntu edgy) I cannot
> find a way to have the right alt key work like the leftmost one. for
> example, right-alt + tab does not work.
>
> Is any of you able to do that? Thank you very much,
>
> Maurizio
>
> PS: I tried the keyboard layouts US and US international.

Well, its not related to usability and it works on 2.16 here. So I
suspect there is problem somewhere in your setup. Probably Right Alt is
binded to level with xkb options.

What does "setxkbmap -print" output in your environment?

The output is

xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes  { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)"       };
        xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
        xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
        xkb_symbols   { include "pc(pc105)+us(intl)+us:2+level3(rwin_switch)"  };
        xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"     };
};

About the right alt being "bound to level", whatever that means, in Keyboard preferences -> layout options, I have only one checkbox active: third level choosers -> Press Right Win-key to choose third level. Anything else is unchecked.

Any idea? Thanks again

Maurizio