Alt mode by default. Here is the problem with ctrl mode, the terminal uses special control characters such as ctrl-c and ctrl-z for stop and suspend. Of course in control mode ctrl-c is used to copy and ctrl-z is used for undo. So what do you do if you want to copy from the terminal? In alt mode there isn't a problem. alt-c and alt-z are available. John Scipione On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Alexandre Deckner <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Axel Dörfler wrote: >> >> Alexandre Deckner <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi! I've noticed that with my keymap (french), the right command key and >>> right option key are switched compared to the us keymap (japanese and uk >>> too). >>> I've got RCommand = 0x60 and ROption = 0x5f. >>> Almost all keymaps are like this. >>> >> >> IIRC most keymaps came from a public domain pool - maybe that one was just >> so old that BeOS did not have the feature to switch the keys. >> >> >>> >>> The problem is that the check in menu preflet fails (since those values >>> are hardcoded there too) and says i'm in Ctrl mode although i'm in Alt mode. >>> Selecting Alt again rewrites these hardcoded values so that following runs >>> are fine. >>> See src/data/etc/keymaps and src/preferences/menu/MenuSettings.cpp >>> >>> Is there any reason behind this variation? >>> >> >> I doubt that there is any particular reason other than trying to change >> the defaults (ie. switch control/alt for the user). I would just fix all >> those keymaps; if you don't want to do this, opening a bug report would be a >> solution for now :-) > > Ok, i'm ready to commit. The faulty keymaps had the left side in "Alt mode" > and the right side in "Ctrl mode". I fixed them to be in "Alt mode" by > default and it now behaves like in R5 (max4.1). > > However, i'm now wondering if the best default wouldn't be the Ctrl mode. > What do you think? How many are still using Alt-C Alt-V for copy paste? :-) > > > Regards, > Alex > >