Re: [tlug] Right Alt-key changes

[Charles Muller <cmuller-lst@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Charles Muller writes:
>
>  >      "pc+jp+inet(evdev)+level3(ralt_switch)"	};
>
> Aha.  The ISO Level 3 switch.  (This is used to allow direct keyboard
> entry of non-default layouts for alternative character sets.  In Japan
> the obvious use is the JIS standard kana keyboard layout.)
>
> I recommend that you *not* mess with this at the system level---it's a
> good thing in general, and I doubt that Ubuntu and other distributions
> will change it---but rather explicitly change it in your personal
> configuration. 

OK, thanks--that's all I needed to know. I do have my small tweak 
running on startup (which I found on an Ubuntu forum), so it's no big 
deal.

As a point of mere conjecture as to the cause of this new situation, 
in my case it happened in the course of upgrading my Debian to 
unstable so that I could use KDE4, but since there was a Linux kernel 
upgrade in the process, as well as Xorg, I don't know if the actual 
source of this change is made in the kernel, Xorg, or KDE4, but I 
expect that more people will come across this problem in the near future.


Chuck



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