The AltGr key does not work for me in Java applications. I use a German keyboard layout, so e.g. pressing AltGr+7 should give the curly bracket {. Instead, I get 7. I tested several Java applications (e.g. /usr/lib/jvm/java/demo/jfc/Notepad/Notepad.jar) but always get the same result. I use java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-7.b12.fc10.x86_64. In other applications (e.g. gedit and firefox) the key works as it should. There seem to be many different people having this problem but I was not able to find any Fedora bug report yet. Here are some links to other people's experiences: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206689 http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262 The problem doesn't seem to be exclusively related to openjdk. It also occurs with VMware products, which are not based on Java as far as I know: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/172478 http://grumpyapache.blogspot.com/2008/12/vmware-and-key-maps-on-fedora-10.html I filed this bug against openjdk since I don't know better at the moment.
This problem also occurs with Sun Java JDK 1.6_11 installed via the installation istruction on http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html#java [saric@xbox bin]$ java -version java version "1.6.0_11" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_11-b03) Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 11.0-b16, mixed mode)
There is a workaround: Setting the environment variable XMODIFIERS to XIM (e.g. by adding "export XMODIFIERS=XIM" to $HOME/.bashrc) makes the problem disappear.
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