From: Scott Courtney (courtney@4th.com)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 18:07:36 EST
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 16:53, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 11:10, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > i would have sworn alt+gr 4 worked in Mandrake
> >
> > Please pardon the dumb question, but what key is "gr" on most systems?
>
> I dont really believe in Dumb questions, just make sure you have made at
> least some effort to find the answer yourself, at a bare minumum putting
> the word into your search engine of choice.
>
> Many keyboards have two Alt keys
> the second one/the one on the right is often labelled "Alt Gr", and in
> certain circumstances it behaves differently to the other Alt. I believe
> that the Gr is short for Grey*.
[...]
> Alt Gr stands for Alt(ernative) Graphic. It was originally, as you
> correctly say, intended for additional keyboard characters, and many
> layouts use it for that purpose, with the additional character being
> shown to the right of the lower character on the key.
Ahhhh... No wonder I didn't recognize this. I don't have any such key on my
keyboard. Perhaps this is because I have a laptop with an abbreviated layout.
In any case, thanks for clearing up the mystery.
Scott
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