A further curiosity following on from those described below - I recompiled xorg-server with a few extra USE flags set (3dfx, sdl, hal) - now alt-shift no longer toggles the keyboard handling, and does operate as meta-shift in emacs. And the keyboard is now consistently treated as a Mac-like layout, with no LEDs lit in xkbvleds. Any thoughts? -- Regards, Dan On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Dan Hatton wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Dan Hatton wrote:
I usually operate my Gentoo netbook with one of two USB keyboards plugged in - a Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard or an Apple Pro Keyboard. Usually, the computer responds to either of these, and its built-in keyboard, as if they were PC-style keyboards, i.e. shift-2 gives ", shift-' gives @. I quite like it this way. Occasionally (usually while the Apple keyboard is plugged in, although I've seen it once while the Microsoft keyboard was plugged in), however, the computer switches to responding to both the USB keyboard and its built-in keyboard as if they were Apple-style keyboards, i.e. shift-2 is @, shift-' is ". There's nothing wrong with this in itself, but unfortunately it coincides with the computer becoming very to respond to keypresses, and frequently mistaking a single keypress for a large number of multiple presses of the same key. It also coincides with the second light from the left (of six) in xkbvleds coming on, which suggests that the behaviour is switchable. Any ideas how to switch it, please?
I just accidentally answered my own question: left alt-shift toggles between the two ways of responding to the keyboard. Interesting. Especially when I want to type meta-% in emacs.