[Wylug-help] X Keyboard Oddness

[Jason Lander]

> Okay, I'm beaten.... how do you get X to accept entry of characters via
> the numeric keypad with Alt held, like Windows does. It works at the
> console, but I can't get it to work in X.
>
> In an xterm, it ignores the Alt key, and I just get the numeric keys echoed.
> In Mozilla, nothing happens at all.
>
> I have a debian box running an Internet kiosk, and the keyboard isn't a
> standard type. There's an "at" symbol key, which sends Alt-064 which I
> need to get working.

I'm not sure if I understand the question, but the answer may be to use

  xmodmap

You should be able to use this to map particular combinations of modifiers
(shift, control, etc) and keys to particular characters.

The xmodmap man page is moderately intelligable.

- Jason