Re: Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?

[Thomas Halahan <tom@halahan.com>]

I solved this recently for KDE 2.  My solution was

1) Use the "xev" command in an xterm to find out what keycode the Alt 
key is. (mine is 64)

2) Put the equivalent line in .xmod (or .xmodmap) >
         keycode 64 = Meta_L

3) execute "xmodmap .xmod"

4) start emacs and try.

Tom



On 04  3:30 am, Scott V. McGuire wrote:
> In a recently installed and apg-get dist-upgraded potato, I can't
> use alt-x in emacs.  Does anyone know why?
>
> (I know I can use escape-x, but I'm used to alt-x)
>
> Thanks,