Re: Alt key

Pimenov Yuri wrote: The software doesn't care what's printed on it ;) My Meta key has "Alt" printed on it, and my "Alt" key has a Windows logo. You have both Alt and Meta, so you have to use the right one. That'll be the Alt key. XEmacs does what the ICCCM says, i.e. mod1 is "Alt" (because it is bound to Alt_L) and mod4 is "Meta" (because it is bound to Meta_L). Unfortunately a lot of X software is written by people who don't read the ICCCM, and assume that "mod1" is "the other key that's sort of like Control". I'm not sure that it will matter. XF86Config affects how the keys are set up initially, but any number of configuration files might change it. The X startup sequence is highly configurable, and many packaged distributions include their own configurations. Consequently, I'm not going to list every possible file which might be used to change it, but anything which is used by the display manager (xdm/gdm/kdm), or the window manager or the desktop environment is a candidate. The following xmodmap commands will do that. keysym Alt_L = Meta_L keysym Meta_L = Alt_L However, the precise effect would depend upon whether anything in your X startup is also using xmodmap (or the underlying X functions) to configure your keymap. It's possible that the above might not do anything (if something else is explicitly configuring these keys), or it might affect how some or all of your existing programs respond to these keys. Isn't configurability wonderful? ;) -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements(a)virgin.net&gt;