From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 17 15:33:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE5B37BB08 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:33:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id AAA14149 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 00:33:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA51259 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:45:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Microsoft keys and Alt keys do the wrong thing Date: 17 Apr 2000 23:45:34 +0200 Message-ID: <8dg0lu$1i1d$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <20000416201147.A12412@rjk191.rh.psu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ray Kohler wrote: > When I use X, the Microsoft key becomes "Meta", and the Alt key does > nothing. Not true. Alt becomes "Alt". Which may do nothing in your favorite applications, but it *is* available as another modifier. Besides, you'll find that you need Control-Alt-Fx rather than Control-Meta-Fx to switch back to a text console. Anyway, this is a generic XFree86 issue and in no way particular to FreeBSD. > When I'm on the console, neither key does anything For syscons, the "Microsoft keys" have the console keycodes 106, 107, 108, normally mapped to F62, F63, F64. You can remap them any way you see fit. > and I have no Meta key. How can I get Alt to be Meta all the time? Define what you mean by "meta" key. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message