Left option 3 not giving hash key on MacBook Pro UK keyboard

[richardgmcmahon]

Hello,

I am connecting from a Apple Macbook Pro laptop with UK keyboard to a server running Linux RHEL 6 and Gnome 2 window manager. When using NoMachine the  left side option-3 does not give me a hash key. right side option-3 does. #

Similarily for option-2; right side give €

In emacs left side returns M-2 and M-3.

A clue might be that in my .emacs on my Mac I have:

; fix hash key issue on mac lpatop with UK keyboard
;; Allow hash to be entered
(global-set-key (kbd “M-3”) ‘(lambda () (interactive) (insert “#”)))

I am using NX 6.9.2 on the client end.; 5.3.25 on Server side

 

Some diagnostic info form setxkbmap and xinput are

xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ xquartz virtual pointer                     id=6    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ pen                                         id=8    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ cursor                                      id=9    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ eraser                                      id=10    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                       id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard                 id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ xquartz virtual keyboard                    id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]

 

setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes  { include “evdev+aliases(qwerty)”    };
xkb_types     { include “complete”    };
xkb_compat    { include “complete”    };
xkb_symbols   { include “pc+gb(mac)+inet(evdev)”    };
xkb_geometry  { include “pc(pc104)”    };
};

setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      evdev
layout:     gb
variant:    mac

[graywolf]

Hello. It is intended to match the keyboard of the remote Linux machine having Alt on the left and AltGr on the right. So the left Option is mapped to Alt while the right Option is mapped to AltGr.

You can modify the keyboard map of the remote machine to make Alt and AltGr keys behave in the same way. Be aware that if you follow this way you won’t have Alt key at remote side. To proceed, just run this command in the remote session on Linux:

xmodmap -e "remove mod1 = Alt_L" -e "keycode 64 = ISO_Level3_Shift NoSymbol ISO_Level3_Shift"

 

 

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