Alt-Gr Key does not work on German Keyboard

Hi,

for some reason, the Alt-Gr Key does not behave the way it should when using a German Keyboard Layout. Instead of making tertiary function on keys work, it simply prints a ‘<’ symbol. With this behavior i’m unable to write symbols like ‘{’ (Alt-Gr + 7) or ‘]’ (Alt-Gr + 9).

Oddly, this only occurs in the RISC OS Direct Distribution, not using the vanilla Distribution from ROOL.

Any Ideas?

Yours,
Egon

RISC OS Direct redefines the right Alt key to behave as another key, by means of a *Keymap command.

Look in !Boot.Choices.Boot.Predesk for an Obey file called “Keymap” (or similar). This will contain a number of *Keymap commands.

Remove the line that redefines key 96 (right Alt key), save the file and reboot.

Clever. Choice of two and they pick the wrong one. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key

The difference, elsewhere, is that Alt is primarily to do with functions (Alt-Tab, Alt-F4, etc etc) while AltGr is to do with input (Alt-e giving é, etc).

Oddly, this only occurs in the RISC OS Direct Distribution, not using the vanilla Distribution from ROOL.

I gave up on direct ages ago. It is not as well tested as ROOL.

Thank you very much for your help, i got it working. The remapping was done in !Boot.Choices.Boot.PreDesk.Keymapper.!Run with the following line:

KeyMap 96 29

Yours,
Egon

I gave up on direct ages ago. It is not as well tested as ROOL.

I suspect that the number of new users doing things with Direct means that it is well tested, but it doesn’t get the critical feedback and patching that the base setup on ROOL does.