Re: Progress concerning Keymap, Modifiers and X11R6.1

Laurent Julliard (Laurent.Julliard@Grenoble.RXRC.Xerox.com)
Fri, 29 Mar 1996 13:54:13 +0100

> Here is some news :
>
> The bad ones :
> - The last release of XFree, version 3.12 D is based on X11 level 6.1,
> the keyboard handling has changed (especially if you use the new KBD
> extensions). This completely broke the way Thot handle the Multi-Key
> sequences needed for ISO-Latin-1 support.
> - Moreover XF 3.12 D got lost if the Alt key si not on Mod1, preventing
> to switch the resolution, change to another virtual console or zap the
> server using Alt+Ctrl+<Key> combinations.
>
> The good ones :
> - I will made available a new version of the Thot binaries soon.
> The new version won't change the keyboard mapping and the modifiers
> settings. So thot won't conflict anymore with the other apps and the
> X server.

it is not clear to me wether this version will work with any version of
XFree or only 3.1.2D ?

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