Many non-Apple keyboards are different enough from Apple's keyboards
to cause problems when using X11.  The most obvious example is when
one presses the option key and the X server crashes (due to the
option-power key combo forcing the X server to quit).  The work
around for this is to get the latest X11 distribution.  It has an
option (-nooptionpower) that will disable the option-power key
sequence and thus allow using option to work.
 
Entered by Chris Penney (penney@cps.msu.edu).


If you don't have -nooptionpower in your current distribution, you
can at least get access to your right mouse buttons by using function
keys:  Provide the following options to X (either
directly to X11 or by changing your xinit, however you start X):

-nooptionmouse -middlekey 115 -rightkey 121

This maps middle button to F14 and the right to F15.  If you don't have
F14 and F15, you can pick whatever buttons you want by looking at the
output from

xmodmap -pk

(while you're running X), which will give you the keycodes for all
your keys.

ert@alum.mit.edu
4/23/97