Alt vs Meta?

This is somewhat off-topic, but it does relate to XEmacs. On my solaris box, gnome-terminals want to use Alt key to do command-line editing with bash. But after decades (gasp!) of XEmacs usage, I want to use Meta key. (Note that xterms work just fine with Meta). The Sun keyboard basically looks like this: CapsLock | Alt | Meta (diamond) | spacebar | Meta (diamond) | Compose | Alt graph The Alt key is just a little to far to the left to reach easily with my thumb. I tried to make the Meta_L key be the same Alt. This works for gnome-terminals, but breaks XEmacs because Alt is not Meta, so all the Meta commands I'm used to don't work because I'm really pressing Alt. Googling for xemacs and Alt key shows some interesting threads, but not quite this one. I could just use plain xterms, but gnome-terms look nicer with the anti-aliases fonts. Ray _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta