Subject: Re: Fluxbox: AltGr not working (azerty keyboard)
To: tlaronde@polynum.com, ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
References: <20201105155225.GA7882@polynum.com>
From: Paul Zillmann <p.zillmann@h6g.de>
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 18:52:30 +0100
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Hello Thierry,

I have some issues understanding your problem.

Is your issues that some characters in the linked emulator won't work, 
is the problem specific to your kerTeX software?
Besides that I was unable to locate kerTeX in the Apline repositories.

Anyway I've tried the emulator - Alpine 3.12 X Window - changed the 
keyboard settings to German.
I've opened a terminal and a text editor - both took pipes and other 
characters accessed by the AltGr key.
I'm working with a native German keyboard (QWERTZ) under Manjaro Linux.

I've tried both Firefox 82.0.2 and Chromium 86.0.4240.111 and both 
worked fine.
I'll check on a Windows machine soon.

Can you describe your test-scenario for us?
What OS are you using, which browser, what's your native keyboard layout 
- am I testing this right or wrong?

- Paul

Am 05.11.20 um 16:52 schrieb tlaronde@polynum.com:
> Hello,
>
> Fabrice Bellard has developed an emulator in JavaScript, and it is now
> possible to have, in a browser, Alpine/i586 running. See:
>
> https://bellard.org/jslinux/
>
> I'm the developper of KerTeX, a TeX and al. distribution and I'd like
> to let people try it without installing, thus on Alpine/i586 in
> JSLinux, the X11 version (there is also a console only version).
>
> No problem with kerTeX: it works.
>
> The problem is for non QWERTY users. If I switch the keyboard (right
> click menu -> keyboard mapping-> french), all is OK except all the
> letters that are accessed with AltGr---and Alt and AltGr simply don't
> work (preventing from using backslash or pipe, and this is quite a
> problem).
>
> There is no problem with console only (another choice with Alpine Linux
> on the page above).
>
> I have searched the Internet about this. There are quite a lot of
> similar issues (not only with Alpine or Fluxbox) but no real solution. I
> have tried several "solutions" but the result is the same, or worse.
>
> Does somebody have any clue?
>
> TIA