Re: making the Apple key work as Alt/Meta
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:24:21PM +0300, Teemu Hukkanen wrote:
> 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.
Teemu,
This didn't change anything. In my xorg.conf, now I have
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "ibook"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
but alt/option is still Alt_L, and Apple/Command/cloverleaf is
Super_L. I am using the latest xserver-xorg, what version are you using?
% setxkbmap -v 10
Setting verbose level to 10
locale is C
Applied rules from xorg:
model: ibook
layout: us
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes: xfree86+aliases(qwerty)
types: complete
compat: complete
symbols: macintosh/us(extended)+apple(laptop_bad_switch)
geometry: macintosh(macintosh)
What does this say on your machine?
Tamas
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