Re: [arch-general] Does anyone find Compiz Fuscion eat up all Alt keys?

Ok. There are some new updates. It should be related with hardware. Now I try to enable CF in another laptop- Dell Inspiron 9300. Everything works well. The problem only occurs in my new laptop - Lenovo T61p. I'll investigate more to find out what's happening in the Thinkpad. On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:24 PM, yueyu lin wrote:

I'm sure no other shortcuts besides compiz's own definitions work. I also try your way. Unfortunately it proves my conclusion too. Compiz eats up the alt. When I press "Alt+e", nothing happens. When I disable compiz and try it again, I can get "^[e" while pressing "Alt+e".

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Adam Vogt wrote:

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Compiz-Fusion has lots of keybindings; it is supposed to intercept all the keys that it is supposed to listen to.

Are you sure that compiz is intercepting _all_ keys with alt?

A basic test to see this would be to open a terminal, run cat, then type away, holding alt (under compiz of course).

You should then see nothing. If the keys are not intercepted, they look like ^[e for M-e..

* On Wednesday, March 05 2008, yueyu lin wrote:

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Hi, all I found the CF in my machine ate up all alt keys besides the CF binding short cuts including Alt, such as Alt+F1,Alt+Tab,Alt+F2,etc.

The scenario is when I enable compiz fuscion in my laptop T61p with nvidia newest driver, everything works fine and smoothly except no more application short cuts containing Alt. That means firefox doesn't have "Alt+F", "Alt+E", Emacs doesn't have "Alt+X". Especially for Emacs's "Alt+X", it's my most important things to use Emacs even use my laptop. So I have to disable compiz when I wanna use Emacs.

I really have no idea what happened even after searching internet. I found when I use xmodmap to add Alt_L to the mod4 even the Alt_L and Alt_R is already set to mod1, the application short cuts work but the compiz short cuts retire... which means "Alt+Tab" doesn't work.

The following is the output of my "xmodmap", I wish it would be helpful to identify the problem. Thanks.

[yueyulin@t61p ~]$ xmodmap xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lock Caps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x71) mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 mod4 mod5 Scroll_Lock (0x4e)

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