Date: 30 Jan 2003 12:21:11 -0000 From: Scott Ballantyne <sdb@ssr.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question asked many times- Message-ID: <20030130122111.2085.qmail@kimchee.ssr.com> In-Reply-To: <000001c2c81a$546e60e0$0200a8c0@tjqathlonpc> (quintin@ohio.edu) References: <000001c2c81a$546e60e0$0200a8c0@tjqathlonpc>
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"Thaddeus J. Quintin" <quintin@ohio.edu> writes: > Greetings- > I've looked around in google and the FreeBSD archives and I've seen this > question asked many times, but never found the answer. > > I would like to map my "alt" keys to be "meta" keys. Is there any > reason why I shouldn't do that? Is there a better/different solution? > Using ESC just doesn't cut it... > If you're using X, the method for doing this is described in the man page for xmodmap. There is no problem with doing this, you can still switch consoles if needed using alt-ctrl F<x>. If you aren't using X, use kdbcontrol, as described in another message. sdb -- sdb@ssr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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