User Feedback :: AltGr key still dead in firefox and opera in 1.1

ok, this workaround seems a little bit odd...

why is the altgr key not working in firefox.? is there a solution to this problem? for german keyboards the alt gr ( or as americans say, the right alt key) is of high importance because the @ symbol is made with it...

using the computer mainly for email, dsl becomes unuseable for a german user if he want's to use firefox and webmail applications, like me, i even could not register on any board or something, hopefully i have a second computer with suse.

As we have stated before, this is not an error with DSL.

This is a bug in the version of Firefox that DSL uses by default. (Firefox 0.9.1)

The main reason that we have not updated to a more recent version of Firefox is that it is a LOT of work to rewrite an application as large as Firefox in GTK 1.2, which is what was done with 0.9.1.

If someone gets ambitious and rewrites a newer version of Firefox in GTK 1.2, I'm relatively sure that if it proves stable, and is relatively the same size as the current version, that it would be included in a future release as a replacement to the existing version.

Until someone does this, either someone in the DevTeam (not me, I suck at coding things that big) or another user does this, Firefox 0.9.1 is likely here to stay, because it works, is fast, uses gtk 1.2, and is just relatively cozy to browse the web with.

At this point, if you need a newer version of Firefox, there are several newer, including the latest version, I think, available as MyDSL packages.

-J.P.

make the following .Xmodmap file:

remove mod4 = Mode_switch
add mod5 = Mode_switch

and then run xmodmap .Xmodmap

thx for your input jls

the result on my box was unfortunately this:

xmodmap: .Xmodmap:0: bad keysym in remove modifier list 'Mode_switch', no corresponding keycodes
xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.

however Hatis post here sort of does the trick altering the shift+2 to @ but sacrificing quotation marks in the process.

# delete mod4 which is for AltGr
xmodmap -e "clear mod4"
# add AltGr to shift keys
xmodmap -e "add shift = Mode_switch"
# change shift+2 to type '@'
xmodmap -e 'keysym 2 = 2 at at'

Quote (SaidinUnleashed @ July 05 2005,22:20)

At this point, if you need a newer version of Firefox, there are several newer, including the latest version, I think, available as MyDSL packages.

Is it possible to download the newest Version of Firefox from the Firefox website and then run the installer?

I will try jls legalize version this evening, cause unfortuneatly my Alt Gr Key still does not work with XFree86 installed... With XVesa it works.. But this is another topic I think, and if I find no solution I will ask in the forum....

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