Re: Emacs and ALT Key in New Debian Installation
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:31, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
>
> Does the left Alt key work and not the right Alt key? Is it possible
> that the "Window" keys work in place of the Alt key?
>
> You may want to look at the configuration for the x keymap in
> /etc/X11/xkb, such as /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 and also in
> /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/alt.
>
> Elizabeth
indeed. On my machine the windows key functions as meta and alt is alt. I
just wish that the person who maintains the console tools would make a
similar change so meta is always meta and alt was always alt.
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