Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key
On Jul 7, sjg@sgeertgens.etl.noaa.gov wrote
> I recently installed XEmacs, and would like to have it recognize my ALT
> key as the META key (which I thought was supposed to be the default, but
> isn't on my machine). I played around with xmodmap some, but didn't
> accomplish anything useful. This is an i386 platform, so the HP fixes for
> it won't help :) Thanks.
For the textmode console, using '/usr/share/kbd/keytables/hypermap.m4' is
supposed to make emacs users happy.
X however, does it's own keyevent -> key translation; I vaguely recall
reading (Linux journal or gazette) that takes over the textmode keymap to
some extent.
Does anyone know how to get X to take over the textmode keymap completely?
Ray
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