From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 14:29:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7872714E2C for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:29:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kcilink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F046DE89D; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 17:29:22 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kcilink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA03062; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 17:29:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera@kci.kcilink.com) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14450.29762.888402.877973@onceler.kcilink.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 17:29:22 -0500 (EST) To: Mark Ovens Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X keymapping In-Reply-To: <20000104220745.F352@marder-1> References: <14450.10100.495300.372549@onceler.kcilink.com> <20000104220745.F352@marder-1> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "MO" == Mark Ovens writes: MO> Similarly, some keyboards have an Alt key but no Meta key. MO> In that case the following may be useful: MO> % xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L" MO> Guess you can just substitute ``R'' for ``L'' to do the other key. Unfortunatley, all this manages to do is kill the existing Meta key, so I have none. Thanks for the suggestion, though. Is there some way to modify the microsoft keyboard geometry file under X11 to swap these keys? I don't see exactly how that file works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message