Comments on: OpenVMS 7.3 VAX on SIMH via Docker – With VNC to DEC Windows https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/02/01/openvms-7-3-on-vax-on-simh-via-docker-because-why-not/ Fun with Virtualization Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:00:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: MiaM https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/02/01/openvms-7-3-on-vax-on-simh-via-docker-because-why-not/comment-page-1/#comment-382112 Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:27:13 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=15604#comment-382112 Nice!
Related tangent:
Do you use a keyboard layout that uses an AltGr key?
If so, does that work in your case?
I had to do a lot of fiddling around with the X server to get the AltGr key to work when I’m using a “modern” X server (approx newer than mid 00’s) with these older operating systems. It seems like older X clients don’t understand as many qualifier/modifier keys as modern X clients/servers, and someone who out to be smeared in tar and rolled in feathers decided to put AltGr over to the “newer/extended” set of qualifier/modifier keys about two decades ago.

Someone filed a bug report to RedHat at the time this happened, but no-one cared to fix the bug. (There is also a bug report filed semi recently for the VcXsrv project, but the problem obviously lies in Xorg, possibly inherited from when it was called XFree86. Bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=110933

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