From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 13 08:18:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA29767 for current-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 08:18:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA29748 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 08:18:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA08855; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:16:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:16:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199710131516.LAA08855@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alt and Meta mapping (was: possible sc0 problem) In-Reply-To: <25390.876733912@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <19971013183646.08998@lemis.com> <25390.876733912@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > In message <19971013183646.08998@lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >> think that there's an easy way to solve all problems. Inmy case, I'd >> rather have Alt as Meta, and use [Fn] [Alt] on the few occasions I >> want to switch VTs. > Great fine and all that, just remember that all the people who have > set up X apps (netscape!) for ALT-foo will loose with this change. No they won't. I have had a META key in X for six years, and all the applications behave the right way---even Netscrape. All they really care about is that the modifier bit is set. (Well, xterm does notice, and does the right thing---set the high bit!) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick