#5658 NORM Ship.2: Sticky Alt or Control Key

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#5658: Sticky Alt or Control Key
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  Reporter:  davidpfarrell  |       Owner:  wad      
      Type:  defect         |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  Ship.2   
 Component:  hardware       |     Version:  Build 650
Resolution:                 |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0              |    Blocking:           
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Comment(by theplaz):

 I managed to fix the problem by not by replacing the alt key with the left
 hand key.

 Keyboard mapping: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Scan_code_table
 L-Grab = 127
 Alt = Something in the 40s

 Run xmodmap in the terminal (not as root!). Open help with "xmodmap -h"
 and then it lists the different combinations to make.  I am a bit of a
 Linux noob, so I spent 20 minutes trying stuff - so I don't know what
 actually made it work.  Using -pp or something like that (see help) you
 can find the key scan tables.  I may have also needed to remove "Meta_L"
 from the "mod1" group, but that might have been a mistake.

 Anyway, this should fix the problem in the meantime by assigning the alt
 key to a useless task. -Michael http://theplaz.com

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5658#comment:89>
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