Re: [Alexander Skwar <ASkwar@DigitalProjects.com>] [Cooker] Setting alt to meta?

For historical reasons, XEmacs looks for a Meta key, then an Alt key. It binds Meta commands to the X11 modifier bit attached to the first of these it finds. On PCs, the Windows key is often assigned the Meta bit, but many desktop environments go to great lengths to get all apps to use the Alt key, and reserve the Windows key to (sensibly enough) the window manager. One correct way to implement this was suggested on comp.emacs.xemacs (by Kilian Foth and in more detail by Michael Piotrowski): unmap the Meta modifier using xmodmap or xkb, and then map the Meta/Windows key to the Super or Hyper keysym and an appropriate mod bit. XEmacs will not find the Meta keysym, and default to using the Alt key for Meta keybindings. Typically few applications use the (X11) Meta modifier; it is tedious but not too much so to teach the ones you need to use Super instead of Meta. There may be further useful hints in the discussion of keymapping on non-Linux platforms.