On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:16:03PM -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Leon Stringer
<leon.stringer(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply, but I'm using Gnome...
I've seen this in XFCE on F8, so my guess is that it is not specific
to the desktop environment. My recourse is to log out and log back in
- it seems to only occur after i have used the VMWare server console
via an X forwarded connection to my rhel4 box. That does some wacky
things with X to grab input, so I just kind of dismissed it as "it
hurts when I do that, doc". Also, it doesn't happen all the time.
I've had something like that happen frequently with the Windows key--not
distro specific or even O/S specific, I've had it happen in FreeBSD as
well. I have an .xmodmaprc file and run xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc before X
boots, which solved the Windows key (Mod4) for me.
You could try making one. Alt_L is 64 and Alt_R is 113, so
you could try a ~/.xmodmaprc of
keycode 64 =Alt_L
keycode 113 =Alt_R
Then, when the problem starts occuring try running
xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc
and see if it fixes the issue. (It probably won't in the open terminal
or other application, but hopefully will take effect for any opened
after that.
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