From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 23:11:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F37203D04 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 23:11:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [208.219.234.21] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ca315356 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:19:51 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA57304; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:21:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: your mail Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:19:23 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Eric Jacoboni , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00013013480000.05236@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> <00013019043000.00335@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> <20000131170010.C33613@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20000131170010.C33613@hades.hell.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00013122211200.57294@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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