> I'm using Synergy/QuickSynergy to control my Ubuntu computer from my
> Powerbook, but the keyboard mapping thing has me thoroughly confused.
>
> It looks like Synergy has some keyboard layout options, and on top of
> this Gnome has plenty too... For starters, what are the meta, super,
> windows, alt, and third level chooser keys?
Basically, there are a lot of modifier bits available. The modifier bits
generated by your keyboard keys may be any of a number of options. The
GNOME GUI should give you enough options and prevent you from screwing
yourself too badly.
Of note:
The Windows key is frequently mapped to Super.
Meta is sometimes the same as Alt, but this need not be the case. In
EMACS, in particular, you may have Alt and Meta with different
mappings.
A third-level chooser is used in some international keyboard mappings.
These would be keys with two symbols above the primary key symbol. The
first you can get with 'shift'. For the second, though, you need to use
the third-level chooser key.
For more information you can read:
Some hints about xmodmap(1) and the X11 keyboard model:
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/X11/xmodmap.html
Or the GoogleCached version:
That article mentioned the xkeycaps documentation was well-written:
http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/man.html
It also mentioned that the best docs were included with the X11 spec:
http://www.x-docs.org/XKB/XKBlib.pdf
Cheers,
Steven Black
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