On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Nicolas Legrand wrote:

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> "Daniel B." <me@dbolgheroni.eng.br> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can't get the response desired to some of the default keybindings in
> > cwm.
> >
> > Some of them: M-/, C-/, M-?. With the first and the third, I just hear a
> > beep (or a Wuff!! in screen). The second delete my window if not in
> > screen, or just "Wuff!!" in screen.
> >
> > Any hints? Thank you.
>
> I had the same problem on a very old iMac. It was the only computer
> who had the same problem you have. I could remap the keybindings in
> .cwmrc, but none of the ASCII characters could be used in a
> keybinding. Anyway I found a work around five minutes ago.
>
> The big difference with this one and the others is I have a xorg.conf
> on it with those rules for keyboard :
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "keyboard"
>         Option      "Protocol"  "standard"
>         Option      "XkbRules"  "xorg"
>         Option      "XkbModel"  "macintosh"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "fr"
> EndSection
>
> I launch X, launch a xterm, I don't have the keybindings with fr
> layout. I usualy use the dvorak layout (don't ask), I type 'setxkbmap
> dvorak' and I don't have the keybindings. I try to comment all lines
> appart 'Identifier' and 'Driver' and add 'Option "XkbLayout" "dvorak"'
> and I don't have the keybindings.
>
> Finally I just wrote the .xinitrc I wrote on my others machines :
>
> setxkbmap dvorak&
> cwm
>
> And it works. Going back to fr with 'setxkbmap fr' don't work, going
> back to dvorak layout after and keybindings still work. Writing fr in
> place of dvorak in .xinitrc make keybindings works for fr, but if I
> change keybindings to dvorak after cwm is launch it doesn't work
> anymore.
>
>
> Change your layout in .xinitrc before launching cwm, don't change your
> layout after : that's my workaround. Understanding truly "why?" is
> yet beyond my skills (thought I'd be interested in answers). I hope
> this description will tip people with skills and knowledge on real
> solutions :-).

I don't know if this is the "right" solution but works now. :)

Thank you.