Re: Inconsistent Emacs behavior in X
Thanks, Mark.
Now I see the problem was caused by my video card! At home XF86Setup
crashes my system so I used xf86config instead. So the XF86Config file on
the two machines were written by different programs.
Chris
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Chris Gray [cpgray@library.uwaterloo.ca] wrote:
> > I have two machines set up with Woody. When I run X Windows on one I can
> > use Alt as the Meta key in Emacs, on the other machine I just get a beep and
> > have to use ESC. I'd like to use Alt as Meta on both. Alt works as Meta on
> > the console on both. Any idea what I might have done differently to cause
> > the difference in behavior?
>
> You probably have different XF86Config files. To get alt as meta, you
> can put it in your "Keyboard" section. Mine is the following:
>
> Section "Keyboard"
> Protocol "Standard"
> AutoRepeat 500 4 # was 500 30
> LeftAlt Meta
> RightAlt Meta
> ScrollLock Compose
> RightCtl Control
> XkbKeycodes "xfree86"
> # XkbKeymap "xfree86(us)"
> XkbTypes "default"
> XkbCompat "default"
> XkbSymbols "us(pc101)"
> XkbGeometry "pc"
> XkbRules "xfree86"
> XkbModel "pc101"
> XkbLayout "us"
> # XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps"
> EndSection
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
>
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