RE: Alt vs Meta key in Emacs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Riel [mailto:joe.riel@incep.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:28 AM
> To: debian
> Subject: Alt vs Meta key in Emacs
>
>
> I use a pc104 keyboard, the bottom row looks like the following:
>
> <ctrl-L> <window-L> <alt-L> <space> <alt-R> <window-R> <menu-R> <ctrl-R>
>
> Using xmodmap I swapped the <ctrl-L> key with the <caps lock>.
> In emacs (under X),
> <window-L> acts like a <meta> key,
> <window-R> doesn't do anything (using xev it shows up as "multi-key")
> <alt-L> and <alt-R> do nothing (they act as <alt> modifier keys, but
> that
> does nothing in emacs).
> <menu-R> behaves as <meta-X>.
>
> How do I change these keys? I tried using keysym in xmodmap,
> but my first attempt did not work with emacs. A search of the
> emacs info pages, web, and Debian HOWTOs wasn't a lot of help.
>
> I currently would like to have the <alt-L> and <alt-R> keys
> act as <meta> keys in emacs (in the long run it might be better
> to have the window keys become <meta> keys and the <alt> keys
> be a new modifier, however, I'm switching from NTEmacs where
> <alt> is <meta> and that's what my fingers want to type.)
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> Joe Riel
>
I got ya covered. Here's my fixkeys script. It lives as a startup script in
.kde/Autostart for me. I agreed that xmodmap leaves a lot to be desired.
Even though I wrote the script below, I'm not entirely sure how it works.
Good luck.
Charlie.
#!/bin/sh
xmodmap - <<EOF
!
! Maps capslock to control
!
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Control = Control_L
!
! Swap alts with meta
!
remove Mod1 = Alt_L
remove Mod1 = Alt_R
remove Mod4 = Meta_L
keysym Meta_L = Alt_L
keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
add mod1 = Meta_L Meta_R
add mod4 = Alt_L
EOF
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