Right alt key

, Will Kahn-Greene | share this (mastodon)
Note: This is an old post in a blog with a lot of posts over a long span of time. The world has changed, technologies have changed, and I've changed. It's likely this is out of date, the code doesn't work, the ideas haven't aged well, or the ideas were terrible to begin with. Let me know if you think this is something that needs updating.

I don't use the right alt key much and at some point in time it just stopped working. I thought the key itself was dead, though that was puzzling. Turns out Ubuntu Feisty (and possibly earlier versions--I have no idea) maps the right alt key to a third-level character input key for extended characters.

I bumped into the System -> Preferences -> Keyboard panel and also discovered I can very easily switch my caps lock key to a control key. Ahhh... happy emacs pinky....

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