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Re: After full-upgrade, `Meta' key not working within Emacs



Quoting Bob Bernstein (poobah@ruptured-duck.com):
> On Sat, 8 Aug 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 
> >...but that still doesn't solve the meta key problem.
> 
> Ordinarily would we not, in the good old days, edit our handy
> /etc/X11.xorg.conf file?

s,.,/,

> I have xorg running here on a very recent Jessie install, and am
> typing in it rather nicely thank you at this very moment, but there
> is no xorg.conf file per se anywhere to be found on this machine.

Nowadays, X configures itself unless you're deviating from the usual
or need driver workarounds etc.
# Xorg -configure   will write one for you if you need to check it
over or make changes and additions.

> There is a thing, a collection of other ".conf" files in fact,
> installed under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, but none of them appear
> to treat of keyboards and their vicissitudes.

They're all next door in /usr/share/X11/kbd/ but aren't for changing.
However, we have no evidence whether X is at fault, do we?

Cheers,
David.


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