What the hell is the ‘Alt Gr’ key for? I can honestly say i’ve never used it, never even hit it unless i’m hoping it’ll magically turn into an ‘Alt’ key and do something useful.
*sigh*
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February 5th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/xkeyboard/
February 5th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Entering the Euro symbol, accented characters, and a dazzling array of modified/non-basic characters if you are using some keyboard layouts (e.g. US International). Shift+Alt-Gr offers even more characters. The standard US/UK/Irish layout produces a tiny tiny subset of all printable characters, not even the full character set for systems with small character sets.
The US, UK and Irish keyboard layouts should make use of Alt-Gr more even if it isn’t to be used for other accented characters. Why should Alt-Gr + c and Alt-Gr + R not produce copyright symbol and registered tm symbol. Or other keys for something more useful.
February 5th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
It puts fadas on things
I reckon the Alt Gr key is what they pay me for in translations so I use it as often as possible…
February 6th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
What Maeve said - she’s very smart you know.
Personally I rarely use it. I’m in the same boat as you when I can safely say that it’s one of the least used keys on my keyboard. The other one is Pause/Break - I mean WTF is that about?
February 7th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
alt-pause/break brings up system properties in windows. hooray! but thats about all i use that key for.