Re: making the Apple key work as Alt/Meta
Tamas K Papp <tpapp@Princeton.EDU> writes:
> I reconfigured x.org with the macintosh layout, and now Ctrl-Option-F1
> switches to the console, so that is fixed. Could somebody please tell
> me how to make the Command key (the one with a cloverleaf on it)
> behave as Alt/Meta (eg switching windows with -Tab, work as Meta in
> Emacs etc). I tried xmodmap, and could not make it work. I wonder if
> it can be done in the xorg config file (with keyboard
> variants/options), if so, would somebody please send me a copy? Other
> solutions would also interest me. The machine is a Powerbook5,4.
In Section "InputDevice"
Option "XkbModel" "ibook"
This makes the option/apple key Super_L and the enter key Mode_switch.
"ibook" and "powerbook" are currently sysnonymous in this context, see
/etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg and /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/apple for reference.
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