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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2004-10-05 11:03 am
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accidental discovery for the day

The "Menu" key works in Mozilla-on-Linux. I don't think this changes anything about my browsing behaviour, but I certainly wasn't aware of it before.
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[identity profile] bitpuddle.livejournal.com 2004-10-06 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
I don't trust that key. I have pried it off and taped it to my whiteboard.
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[identity profile] waider.livejournal.com 2004-10-06 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
You'd get on well with kor - every time we give him a keyboard, he pries off the capslock key and sticks it somewhere.

[identity profile] kehoea.livejournal.com 2004-10-08 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
Doesn't work on Firefox-on-NetBSD. Intriguing. What keyboard layout are you using? I've put 
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "ie(UnicodeExpert)"
EndSection
in my XF86Config, so altgr+vowel gives the corresponding fada.
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[identity profile] waider.livejournal.com 2004-10-08 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, since firefox != mozilla I'm not exactly surprised, but hey.

    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
    Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
    Option      "XkbModel" "armada"
    Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"

[identity profile] kehoea.livejournal.com 2004-10-08 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)

Aye, looks like that was it. With setxkbmap gb, xev reports a "Menu" keysym, and firefox gives a menu, but setxkbmap 'ie(UnicodeExpert)' and xev says "ISO_Level3_Shift," no menu shown. XFree86(/xorg, if that's your poison) being randomly inconsistent isn't a surprise to anyone, I think.

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