Re: emacs, X, and Alt key
"Thomas E. Vaughan" <tvaughan@diac.com> writes:
> I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my Pentium-133 machine.
>
> I used dselect's FTP mode to install emacs-19.34, X, and AfterStep.
> My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta'
> by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works well enough to switch
> between windows.
>
> I much prefer `Alt-x' to `Esc-x' as a means of entering an emacs command.
> But the `Alt' key is not functioning as `Meta'. Has anyone else seen this
> behavior? Surely it should not be the default behavior, but I have done
> very little customization and am inclined to suspect that it is. Yuck.
> I would appreciate any assistance.
>
> Thanks.
Well, I have seen that behavior on my machine, but that's because I
have a 104-key keyboard (with the three silly Win95 keys), and my Meta
is the Windows logo key, rather than alt. Did you perhaps
accidentally tell XF86Setup that you have a 104-key keyboard, not a
101-key one?
What is the result of the following commands:
xmodmap
xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]'
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