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Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems
From: |
Paul Michael Reilly |
Subject: |
Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:22:25 -0500 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>...
> I run Windows XP.
>
> > If you are running Windows/XP then you should go to the Control
> > Panel and select "Regional and Language Options" and let us know
> > where any pulldowns on any tabs show anything but "United States
> > (English)".
>
> It says "English (United States)", but under "Location" below it says
> "Israel". Which is what I want: I want an Israeli locale, but I want
> English as the UI interface.
>
> Aha, I think I know what is the source of your problem. In the
> "Regional and Language Options", press the "Languages" tab, then click
> "Details". In the dialog that pops up, click the "Key Settings"
> button and look for an entry that uses the right Alt key. If you can
> get along without that function, disable it, which will change its key
> to "None", and I think your right Alt key will behave as Meta.
>
> > For example if you use a Hebrew input method that just
> > happens to make the right Alt key work like a Meta modifier, that
> > would be good to know.
>
> No, my Key Settings dialog described above does not list any function
> that is bound to the right Alt; the function "Switch to English-US"
> has "None" listed as its key binding.
Mine too. How weird. And very distressing. Of course, I set my
location to Israel just to see if it made a difference. It does not.
But then I probably need to reboot. :-) ... reboot has no effect.
...
Rather than hit ^C^C I went back to the XP box and probed around. It
would appear that something in the Accessibility Options on the
Control Panel called "StickyKeys" is the ticket. I turned the
"StickyKeys" option on and got the desired behavior. Do a search in
the Help tool for "sticky keys" to get the gory details if you are
interested.
Thanks for shedding light on this issue.
-pmr
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, (continued)
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Paul Michael Reilly, 2005/12/28
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Lennart Borgman, 2005/12/28
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/12/28
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Paul Michael Reilly, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Paul Pogonyshev, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Paul Pogonyshev, 2005/12/30
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/31
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, David Kastrup, 2005/12/31
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems,
Paul Michael Reilly <=
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Stefan Monnier, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/12/28
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Paul Pogonyshev, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Stefan Monnier, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Paul Pogonyshev, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Juri Linkov, 2005/12/29
- Re: Mode_switch and LEIM (was Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems), Paul Pogonyshev, 2005/12/30
- Re: Mode_switch and LEIM, Juri Linkov, 2005/12/30
- Re: Mode_switch and LEIM, Stefan Monnier, 2005/12/31
- Re: Mode_switch and LEIM, Paul Pogonyshev, 2005/12/31