Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:19:23 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> Cc: Eric Jacoboni <jaco@titine.fr.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <00013122211200.57294@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> In-Reply-To: <20000131170010.C33613@hades.hell.gr> References: <00013013480000.05236@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> <00013019043000.00335@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> <20000131170010.C33613@hades.hell.gr>
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Use xmodmap to see what happends where Meta_L is bound. In my keyboard > with a clean XFree86 installation and US-English keyboard map, it was: > > % xmodmap -pke | grep Meta > keycode 115 = Meta_L > keycode 116 = Meta_R > % xmodmap -pke | grep Alt > keycode 64 = Alt_L > keycode 113 = Alt_R > > So, to bind the left ALT key of my keyboard to Meta, I did: > > % cat >> ~/.Xmodmap > keycode 64 = Meta_L > ^D > % xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap > > The next time I started Emacs, the left ALT key did work as a meta key. > Putting the changes to the default xmodmap in ~/.Xmodmap ensures that > they'll be there the next time you start X11 too. > Thank you, that was extremely helpful! It turns out that my Meta and Alt keys are tied together to the same keycodes. Guess I need to seperate them. -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. P.S. The answer is 42. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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