From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with alt-key on Apple iBook
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 14:44:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060204144454.08191406@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D8E1F7F1-A01A-4706-8450-57695467D7FC@ruderich.com>
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On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:18:56 +0100, Simon Ruderich wrote:
> My problem is now that some characters (like the curly brace) can
> only be typed by using the alt-key. But if I press the alt-key and 8
> for example then the console changes from this:
> livecd root #
> To this:
> (arg: 8)
> And I don't know what this means.
> Is there anything I can do to get the alt-key working?
This is nothing to do with the iBook hardware, my AMD64 box does it too.
The Alt key works but Alt-n giving (arg: n) appears to be a feature of
bash, although there's no reference to the Alt key in the bash manpage.
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Neil Bothwick
In the begining, there was nothing.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-04 12:18 [gentoo-user] Problem with alt-key on Apple iBook Simon Ruderich
2006-02-04 14:44 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2006-02-05 1:35 ` Richard Fish
2006-02-05 10:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-05 1:45 ` Willie Wong
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