Solaris tricks
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Page containing various magical things that I've learned about opensolaris in my quest to get it working as I want it.
I use x2x to send keyboard input to my opensolaris box. It's an Ultra 80 with a Sun Type 4 keyboard. However, the machine I x2x from is a PC with an IBM Type-M keyboard. By default, any shortcuts using the alt key don't work. However, if on the PC you run the following command:
xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L"
It should fix the issues with shortcuts using alt. This works better than using xmodmap on the sun machine. I'm not sure why but I'm not gonna argue.