Hi,
On 23 January 2010 19:47, Stephan Schulz
xmonad --recompile yielded no errors or warnings, but it didn't help either.
This is odd. Maybe there's something broken with the keyboard definition? You could run xev from inside a terminal to see what happens when you press any of the modifier keys. If you move the focus to the xev window you'll be able to monitor what's happening in the terminal. The output should look like: KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001, root 0x6e, subw 0x0, time 48918465, (342,370), root:(343,385), state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001, root 0x6e, subw 0x0, time 48918584, (342,370), root:(343,385), state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False Btw: What's your hardware configuration? Are you running on some old sparc box, or is it a USB keyboard? And what about the software, is it a stock Solaris 10 (including Xsun), or do you use any additional packages? OpenCSW for example comes with it's own Xorg server, which might lead to some configuration trouble (this is just a guess, though). Did you modify the xorg.conf of your X server? Christian