On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:20:35 -0800, Toby Bartels
<toby+wikipedia(a)math.ucr.edu> wrote:
Tarquin wrote:
Jason Williams wrote:
> Jimmy Wales wrote:
>> What is 'AltGr'? Is that the one
naive people like me call "the
>> Windows key"?
> The right-hand Alt key.
AFAIK US keyboards don't have it
I'm sitting at a US keyboard now (made by Sun) that has it.
Probably most keyboards on Linux boxes don't have it,
since they use standard keyboards with few neat keys --
maybe even a Micro$oft one that certainly has no AltGr.
But Jason's response suggests that Linux is often set up
when using these keyboards to that the right-hand Alt key
will run as AltGr. I never heard that, but maybe it's so.
That said, even my Sun isn't set up to use AltGr this way.
What I use instead is the greatest key in the world, Compose.
If you have no Compose key, then your keyboard suxors ^_^.
The right-hand ALt key is indeed the AltGr key when you switch to many
European keyboard layouts, and on windows it's action is mimiced by Ctrl-
Alt. Which is why it is bad for an application to use Ctrl-Alt-key
shortcuts. (Opera had this problem until they disabled all Ctrl-Alt
shortcuts in form fields.
--
Richard Grevers