Saturday, January 3, 2009

Alt Gr dead in java gui apps

Its time I blogged about a bug. This one isn't very interesting, but it is annoying. Internationalisation is one of those seemingly simple things that is so hard to get right, due to the huge combination of settings, and solutions.

Whilst trying to do some coding in Netbeans, I found the Alt Gr key not working on my Swedish/Finish keyboard. Pretty important as it gets you the { and } keys! What's so frustrating is that the keys are working perfectly in every other app I've used.

After checking this Netbeans article, I found the solution here in Ubuntu's bug tracker.

$ XMODIFIERS='' /opt/netbeans-6.1/bin/netbeans

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