Dear users I have asked the following to the KDE user mailing too. I have updgraded to KDE2 (which is very good) and found that there are global keybinding in KDE that prohibit the use of the ALT key in emacs and bash. This is very inconvenient. I have gone into global keybinding of the KDE Control panel and removed all uses of ALT. However this has not "released" the ALT key for emacs. Q> Has anyone any idea as to how I might change this? Tom