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From: Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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To: roberto@keltia.FReenix.FR (Ollivier Robert)
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Subject: Re: Netscape 8bit input
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>> Netscape will not accept 8bit characters from the mouse buffer, and will not
>> accept accent keystrokes from the keyboard.

>Which Netscape ? Linux or BSDi ?

BSDi, since it runs "native", i.e. I don't have to fiddle with setting up
the linux emulator.

>The 3.0/BSDI is showing the same symptoms. Maybe a bad interaction between
>the libraries used by Netscape and X11R6 ?

If you mean running it under BSDi, seems like the program itself (netscape)
is at fault. I wonder whether the linux version does the same.

>> On my keyboard, SHIFT-RALT-2 defines '@' but netscape uses ALT-2 as a hotkey
>> to jump to the 2nd location on the "GO" list. Therefore I find the only way
>> to enter '@' is to copy it from another window with the mouse.

>Do you have a special entry in your .xmodmap (do you use one ?) for '@' ?

keycode  11 = 2 quotedbl 2 at

>I also have the following to deal with AltGr differently than Alt.

>keycode 113 = Mode_switch
>add mod4 = Multi_key

What does that last line actually do? (i.e. what change is effected by it?)

>Section "Keyboard"
>    Protocol	"Standard"
>	XkbDisable
        ^^^^^^^^^^
Aha!

Does this prevent netscape from treating AltGr as Alt?
(none of the other differences do).

Otherwise it looks like I need to fiddle with some of these:
(pasted from the XF86Config manpage)

       XkbRules "rulesfile"
       XkbModel "model"
       XkbLayout "layout"
       XkbVariant "variant"
       XkbOptions "optionlist"

       XkbKeymap "keymap"
       XkbKeycodes "keycodes"
       XkbTypes "types"
       XkbCompat "compat"
       XkbSymbols "symbols"
       XkbGeometry "geometry"

right?
 
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Adam David <adam@veda.is>