On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:53:25PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > Having separate alt and meta keys appears to be popular with no one, > > hence this change. > > Having separate alt and meta keys is one of the things that really > impressed me about Debian in the first place. (Far from the only > thing, but I found it indicative of the attention to detail that makes > Debian such a high quality system.) > > If it "appears" to be popular with no one, that may be because the > people (like me) who prefer the system as it is have had no reason to > complain, and were therefore silent. > > If I do have a complaint about keyboard mappings in Debian, it is with > the console mappings, not the X mappings, which are, IMO, excellent. Hrm. All right. To be honest, having alt and meta on separate keys has never been a problem for me personally (filthy vim-using infidel that I am), but it drives some guys I work with crazy, and I periodically get griped at about it at trade shows and the like. I'll see if I can figure out how to create an options file for it. (A lá /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ctrl). Thanks for the feedback! -- G. Branden Robinson | You could wire up a dead rat to a Debian GNU/Linux | DIMM socket and the PC BIOS memory branden@debian.org | test would pass it just fine. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Ethan Benson
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