[Gnumed-bugs] Re: Unhappy with Apple + X11 + GNUmed?

[Jim Busser]

> I have tried conceivable combinations of Apple key (Command), Control, Option 
> (alt), Shift, and tilde yet cannot jump into the menus from the keyboard.

Is this thread BTW suitable for gnumed-bugs or is -bugs preferred for problems 
in gnumed, rather than cross-platform support for gnumed (i,e, should this 
thread be instead on gnumed-devel)?

Anyhow I did also find the following, do people think it's orthogonal to my 
problem on Snow Leopard?





        http://forums.macosxhints.com/printthread.php?t=39069

14- The ALT key does not work with Apple's X11 in Tiger.
 
(Thanks to Andreas)

In applications like gedit, gnumeric, xchat, gnome-terminal....the following 
keys are not working:

[ { } ] \ | € 

The cause of this is Apple has mapped the option key to both the X11 mod1 and 
Mode_Switch key symbols and gtk doesn't support this if the XKEYBOARD extension 
is not present.

*One way to solve this is to do a simple shellscript:

cd /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS
sudo mv X11 X11R6
sudo $EDITOR X11

#!/bin/sh
/Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11R6 +kb $*

sudo chmod 755 X11

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