Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to
recognise the Alt key under X.  (The system is a Toshiba laptop.)

Daniel Martin wrote:

> What is the result of the following commands:
> xmodmap
> xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]'

Here are the results:

$ xmodmap
xmodmap:  up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x71)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3      
mod4        Meta_L (0x73),  Meta_R (0x74)
mod5        Scroll_Lock (0x4e)

$ xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]'
keycode  64 = Alt_L
keycode 113 = Alt_R
keycode 115 = Meta_L
keycode 116 = Meta_R

I can't see anything particularly wrong here - but then, I'm no expert.
Is something not right?

Peter Galbraith wrote:

> Run `xev' and press the Alt keys to find what keycode they generate

I did this and got:

KeyPress event, serial 21, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
    root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 535084486, (-5,-23), root:(380,198),
    state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 characters:  ""

KeyRelease event, serial 21, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
    root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 535084676, (-5,-23), root:(380,198),
    state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 characters:  ""


Seems fine.  No?


Well I don't know what to do from here.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mark.

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