Re: Meta and Alt keys
Rob Mahurin wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 05:36:17PM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> > Rob Mahurin <alphenglor@rhct093.res.utk.edu> writes:
> >
> > | I think it would be really handy to change my keymap (either in X or the
> > | console, or both) so that Alt is an Alt key and the useless Win95 Start key
> > | is a Meta key.
> >
> > Hmm, I thought this was the default. I seem to distinctly remember
> > changing that around because I hated those d*mn Windows keys so much I
> > removed them from my keyboard! I'm using slink on my main system so
> > maybe that's the difference?
>
> I bet it is. I'm running hamm.
>
> > Anyway, the "xkeycaps" program is your
> > friend in X! I think it's in it's own Debian package? It allows you to
> > define the keys anyway you want, save it to a file, and I think tells
> > you how to load it by default when you log in.
> >
> [snip]
> > As I said, to each his own, but I hate those keys, even in
> > Windows. Can't count the times in a game I was trying to hit the Alt
> > key and hit the Win key instead only to be popped back to desktop. As
> > I said, I pryed those suckers completely off!
>
> I feel your pain -- that's why I want them do do something _useful_.
>
> >
> > In addition, under Linux I redefined my Alt keys, via xkeycaps, to be
> > my Meta key for XEmacs too.
> >
> > Good Luck,
> > Gary
> >
>
> Thanks much, I will look into these things.
>
> As far as the console end of things, I can clarify my question a little bit:
> the defkeymap.map loaded by "loadkeys -d" is not the same as the default key
> map loaded at boot time. Where is the second one?
>
> Rob
If you put a default.map[.gz] in /etc/kbd/ it will be read in
during bootup.
--
Ed C.
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