Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key
"David R. Kohel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did anyone come up with a solution to this one? > > Is this controlled by emacs of X keymapping (or both)? > > I had the same problem (with emacs) until it spontaneously corrected > itself. > > David > > > I recently installed XEmacs, and would like to have it recognize my ALT > > key as the META key (which I thought was supposed to be the default, but > > isn't on my machine). I played around with xmodmap some, but didn't > > accomplish anything useful. This is an i386 platform, so the HP fixes for > > it won't help :) Thanks. > I think it's configurable in the XF86Config file. In mine there are this lines: # To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift, # RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock: LeftAlt Meta RightAltModeShift #RightCtlCompose #ScrollLock ModeLock By default, all lines were commented out. Uncomment the first one (the second is for german keyboards, I think) and try out, if it works. Hope it helpsJoachim -- Joachim Trinkwitzemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIP-Pool Anglistik, Germanistik, phone: 0228-737565 Romanistik, Skandinavistik fax: 0228-737479 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Am Hof 1d, D-53113 Bonn, Germany -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key
> "David" == David R Kohel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Did anyone come up with a solution to this one? Is this David> controlled by emacs of X keymapping (or both)? I've found `xkeycaps' to be invaluable for setting X Windows keysyms. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key
> Did anyone come up with a solution to this one? > > Is this controlled by emacs of X keymapping (or both)? > > I had the same problem (with emacs) until it spontaneously corrected > itself. > > David Yes, I did receive a reply about this. It turned out to be an problem with my X keymapping (although there may have been some way to get around it with XEmacs, but..) If I did an 'xmodmap', I would have a mod1 line with the two ALT keys and a mod4 line with the two META keys. By doing a xmodmap -e 'remove mod4 = Meta_R' -e 'remove mod4 =Meta_L' the problem will be resolved (ie., you removed that mapping of the Meta keys, so it will now default to the Alt keys). I have no idea which 2 keys the mod4 line was mapping the Meta keys to... SJG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key
Did anyone come up with a solution to this one? Is this controlled by emacs of X keymapping (or both)? I had the same problem (with emacs) until it spontaneously corrected itself. David > I recently installed XEmacs, and would like to have it recognize my ALT > key as the META key (which I thought was supposed to be the default, but > isn't on my machine). I played around with xmodmap some, but didn't > accomplish anything useful. This is an i386 platform, so the HP fixes for > it won't help :) Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key
On Jul 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I recently installed XEmacs, and would like to have it recognize my ALT > key as the META key (which I thought was supposed to be the default, but > isn't on my machine). I played around with xmodmap some, but didn't > accomplish anything useful. This is an i386 platform, so the HP fixes for > it won't help :) Thanks. For the textmode console, using '/usr/share/kbd/keytables/hypermap.m4' is supposed to make emacs users happy. X however, does it's own keyevent -> key translation; I vaguely recall reading (Linux journal or gazette) that takes over the textmode keymap to some extent. Does anyone know how to get X to take over the textmode keymap completely? Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
