Re: Alt as Meta Key in Emacs21 and XFree 4.1.0.1
This will swap your left windows and alt keys, so you can use Alt for
Meta and (in wmaker and probably other window managers) the windows
key to switch windows.
1. Use xkeycaps to rearrange the keyboard how you'd like, and save the
modifications in a file such as ~/.xmodmap. Mine looks like this:
remove Mod1 = Alt_L
remove Mod4 = Meta_L
keycode 0x73 = Alt_L
keycode 0x40 = Meta_L
add Mod1 = Alt_L Alt_L
add Mod4 = Meta_L
2. Put this in your .xsession file:
xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
Of course there are probably a dozen other ways to do the same
thing; this works for me.
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Pete Harlan
pete@artselect.com
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:56:30PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 08-Apr-2002 Holger Rauch wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I noticed that in Debian Woody the Alt key does not work as Meta key when
> > using Emacs 21 under X (XFree 4.1.0.1). What do I have to put in my .emacs
> > file to get it to work? (I was looking at the FAQ using Help->Emacs FAQ,
> > but found nothing there.) Searching with google revealed:
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