ramani@charity.Stanford.EDU (Ramani Pichumani) (09/19/89)
Has any gotten the meta key to work with X11 on a 4D machine. Apparently, the keyboard translation for NeWS windows doesn't apply to an X11 window so we are without a meta key when we run xemacs or tcsh. If I run xemacs remotely on my Sun, the xemacs on the Iris recognizes the 200 bit correctly so I suspect the problem is in the keyboard translation. Whatever the cause, the meta is never recognized on the Iris keyboard. Ramani Pichumani Tel: (415) 723-2902 or 723-2437 Department of Computer Science Fax: (415) 725-7411 Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 308 email: ramani@patience.stanford.edu Stanford, CA 94305 USA uunet!patience.stanford.edu!ramani
scotth@corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry) (09/19/89)
In article <11836@polya.Stanford.EDU> ramani@charity.Stanford.EDU (Ramani Pichumani) writes:
r> Has any gotten the meta key to work with X11 on a 4D machine.
r> Apparently, the keyboard translation for NeWS windows doesn't apply to
r> an X11 window so we are without a meta key when we run xemacs or tcsh.
r> If I run xemacs remotely on my Sun, the xemacs on the Iris recognizes
r> the 200 bit correctly so I suspect the problem is in the keyboard
r> translation. Whatever the cause, the meta is never recognized on the
r> Iris keyboard.
I just figured this out myself a couple of days ago: The patch to UI.ps
that maps the Alt-keys to be Meta-keys under NeWS/4Sight BREAKS (under
3.2, anyway) the X-server's mapping of the Alt-keys to be Meta-keys. So,
to have working Meta-keys under X is and XOR with working Meta-keys under
4Sight/NeWS at this time. Since you should have put the patched copy of
/usr/NeWS/lib/NeWS/UI.ps into ~/NeWS/UI.ps (you don't really want to step
on your original source, now, do you?), just rename ~/NeWS/UI.ps to
something else when you would rather use the X-Meta-keys, and rename it
back to ~/NeWS/UI.ps when you want to use the 4Sight/NeWS-Meta-keys. I
know it's a pain (since you have to logout and login again to make the
change happen), but until we can get WPD to fix this is the best
workaround I know of at the moment. Since I'm in I/S, not engineering, I
don't have any more control over this stuff than you do (maybe less, as
I'm not a paying customer).
r> Ramani Pichumani Tel: (415) 723-2902 or 723-2437
r> Department of Computer Science Fax: (415) 725-7411
r> Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 308 email: ramani@patience.stanford.edu
r> Stanford, CA 94305 USA uunet!patience.stanford.edu!ramani
Disclaimer: even though I work at SGI, I'm just another user. I just
happen to get the stuff sooner...
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Scott Henry <scotth@corp.sgi.com>
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