From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 30 4:21:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9049737B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 04:21:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from redhotmomma.ssr.com (ns.ssr.com [199.4.235.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9308C43F75 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 04:21:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sdb@ssr.com) Received: (qmail 19931 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2003 12:21:12 -0000 Received: from kimchee.ssr.com (199.4.235.5) by ns.ssr.com with QMQP; 30 Jan 2003 12:21:12 -0000 Date: 30 Jan 2003 12:21:11 -0000 Message-ID: <20030130122111.2085.qmail@kimchee.ssr.com> From: Scott Ballantyne To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <000001c2c81a$546e60e0$0200a8c0@tjqathlonpc> (quintin@ohio.edu) Subject: Re: A question asked many times- References: <000001c2c81a$546e60e0$0200a8c0@tjqathlonpc> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Thaddeus J. Quintin" writes: > Greetings- > I've looked around in google and the FreeBSD archives and I've seen this > question asked many times, but never found the answer. > > I would like to map my "alt" keys to be "meta" keys. Is there any > reason why I shouldn't do that? Is there a better/different solution? > Using ESC just doesn't cut it... > If you're using X, the method for doing this is described in the man page for xmodmap. There is no problem with doing this, you can still switch consoles if needed using alt-ctrl F. If you aren't using X, use kdbcontrol, as described in another message. sdb -- sdb@ssr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message