Re: names of meta and alt keys?

SJT> I don't know exactly what you mean, I grepped the XFree86 xkb symbol SJT> definitions for alt and meta, see below. If you need something else, SJT> tell me. On a lot of keyboards META is apparently implemented by some SJT> sort of shift of ALT, so be careful. Of course, we have (x-keysym-on-keyboard-sans-modifiers) SJT> With xkb it should be possible to ask what key produces ALT, what key SJT> produces META, and check if they're different. (I don't know how to SJT> do this.) Most Linux systems use xkb now I think, don't know about SJT> other vendors though; if that's actually XFree86 policy, then most SJT> free *nices do, I guess. xkb seems like it's very powerful, but it seems amazingly complicated and underdocumented. I've tried to use it for my personal key hackery, but have gone back to xmodmap, since I can make it do what I want.