From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 14:40:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oracle.clara.net (oracle.clara.net [195.8.69.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0839837B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:40:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@clara.co.uk) Received: from [213.253.39.3] (helo=myname.my.domain) by oracle.clara.net with esmtp (Exim 3.11 #5) id 14n5s5-000AaV-00; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:40:21 +0100 Received: (from alex@localhost) by myname.my.domain (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3AHQBY02439; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:26:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:26:11 +0100 From: "Aleksandar Simic'" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: Joel Dinel Subject: Re: META key Message-ID: <20010410182611.A2391@frustum.clara.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Aleksandar Simic' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Joel Dinel References: <20010410101203.A223@dinjo.touchtunes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010410101203.A223@dinjo.touchtunes.com>; from dinjo@touchtunes.com on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:12:03AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:12:03AM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > Someone asked me this and I couldn't answer them, so here goes: > > Is there a way to "remap" the META key to the left ALT key? If you are going to be using it under X Windows then look at xmodmap. eg: $ xmodmap -pke > ~/.Xmodmap $ emacs ~/.Xmodmap and then you edit it to your needs If you are going to be using it on the console look at the /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.emacs.kbd. Good luck, --Alex -- M-x spook -- counter-intelligence David John Oates FSF cypherpunk nuclear arrangements Honduras World Trade Center Taleban PLO To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message