On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to > > recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) > > The `problem' is that the Alt keys aren't acting as the Meta keys - > instead, your X is configured to have the Windows-Logo keys act as > Meta. XFree86 does this if you tell it that you have a 104-key > keyboard (the keyboards without these amusing keys are 101-key > keyboards). Based on earlier correspondence with the original person > who posted this problem, I think that XFree86 may now default to > 104-key keyboard behavior unless you tell it otherwise.
The laptop doesn't have meta keys or windows-logo keys. > Anyway, there are two ways to fix this: > 1) Tell XFree86 that you have a 101-key keyboard. > ... > XkbModel "pc101" I did this, restarted X, and it didn't fix the problem. > 2) Just force the Alt keys to act as Meta > Add the following lines to the end of your /etc/X11/Xmodmap: > keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L > keycode 113 = Alt_R Meta_R This worked! Thanks for your help, all of you. Mark. __________________________________________________________________________ _\________/___\______/___________________________Mark_Phillips___________/ ____\__/_____\__/--\__/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ____\__/HE___\__/------APTAIN/ ________________________________ ____\__/_____\__/--\__/______/ /__"To be is to do."__I. Kant___/ ____\__/______\______/_______/ /__"To do is to be."__A. Sartre_/ /__"I am."____________God_______/ /__Jesus did.___________________/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .