From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 9 15:37:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA14059 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 15:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA14047 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 15:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thurston.eng.umd.edu (thurston.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.25]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.8.0/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA05554; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:37:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by thurston.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA08899; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:37:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: thurston.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:37:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@thurston.eng.umd.edu To: Brant Katkansky cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Mark Diekhans , cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Alt/Meta-Key problems/ pty problem? In-Reply-To: <325C0934.24AE@fta.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Brant Katkansky wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > Meta-keys for curses emacs are 8-bit characters. By default, syscons doesn't > > > generate them for the alt key. The kbdcontrol control command can be used > > > > Is THAT why. I, for one, would love to see it do that by Default! > > > > This is sort of related... > > I'd love to be able to change the key mappings under XFree86 so > that my function keys behave like the L? keys on my Sun. > > I've figured out how to do this under Solaris x86, but I can't > get it to fly under FreeBSD. > > Any suggestions? Not particularly hard to do with X ... do a 'man xmodmap'. It tells how to do key remapping. > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------