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Date:      Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:04:25 +0400
From:      Igor Roboul <igor@raduga.dyndns.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ALT Key
Message-ID:  <20001016130425.A29234@linux.rainbow>
In-Reply-To: <001601c03807$7a96bec0$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com>; from smujohnson@home.com on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:57:13PM -0700
References:  <001601c03807$7a96bec0$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com>

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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:57:13PM -0700, Mike Batchelor wrote:
> Pressing ALT-1 for example, it is as if I was not even holding the ALT key down... just pressing the 1 key.  I noticed this mainly in BitchX where I could not switch windows.. yet could from a different computer via telnet.
I think, this is problem with Alt/Meta 
If you have keyboard with "Windows" keys, then Meta is key with 
"Windows banner" and Alt is just Alt key. If you had keyboard without "WinKeys"
then on that keyboard Alt was also Meta.
So, try "Windows banner" key with BitchX. 

-- 
Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", 
Sochi, Russia
http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744


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