[openbeos] Re: Haiku-key

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:19:41 +0100 CET

"Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> especially to a programmer.) As BeOS hogs both Alt keys, the Alt-Gr 
> function is lost. This has always been a problem for non-American 
> BeOS 
> users, or rather those who rely on Alt-Gr. The Alt-Gr function needs 
> another modifier key, which is why the Windows Start keys are used. 
> (I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but at some point there was 
> actually a split Control key, to make up for the way BeOS needed both 
> Alt keys.)

"Alt Gr" works just as expected with the German keymap; ie. there it 
doesn't make both the same.

Bye,
   Axel.


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