KDE 'changes' my keyboard

Ben Boeckel MathStuf at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 17:32:23 UTC 2010


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Petrus de Calguarium wrote:

> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
>> it makes Shift+RAlt (in that order) behave
>> (completely) differently than RAlt+Shift (in that order)
> 
> Now, this is truly odd. Normally, one depresses shift and Alt, or shift
> and Control, or shift and anything at the same time.
> 
> The only place I have ever encountered pressing some modifier key, then
> releasing it before typing the other keys (to the extent of my memory), is
> Alt-SysRq+reisub, but I seem to recall that that got changed a while back
> in how the key combination works, as I now type Alt-SysRq, then I release
> SysRq but continue holding down the Alt while I type reisub. If I am not
> mistaken, the old way required you to have 3 hands, as you had to hold
> both Alt and SysRq down while typing reisub.
Shift+RAlt is a release-before-use modifier. Similar to screen's ^A, ^O in 
my xmonad setup, and alt+d in plasma these days.

> (But, as for what) Ben Boeckel wrote:
>> The dead keys throw people off.
> 
> Well, that is simply not true. All over the world, diacritical marks are
> expected to be dead keys, or they wouldn't work.
I mean those that have never seen a dead key before. It made it a pain for 
anyone to use my keyboard at all. I don't type them enough to need the keys 
to be dead, but enough that they need to be available. Maybe there should be 
a "how often do you type int'l chars"? option?

- --Ben
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