Troy Noble wrote: > > What does emacs report when you try \C-h k Left_Alt a? Similarly try > the same thing with all the other windows keys, right alt, popup menu key, > etc. > <Left-Alt> a -- A-a <Left-Startmenu> a -- Captured. It doesn't reach Xemacs <Right-Alt> a -- A-a <Right-Startmenu> a -- Multi-key a <PopUp> -- popup-mode-menu (a isn't given opportunity to be added) > I have mapped mine in my .Xmodmap such that Left Window Key is "Alt", > Left Alt is "Meta", Right Alt is "Meta", Right Window Key is "Super", > and Popup Menu Key is "Hyper". Works really well for me with XFree86 > 3.3.6 on RedHat 6.2 with GNOME 1.0.something, SawFish 0.33.1 and XEmacs > 21.2 beta 36. I don't use the latest CVS, so don't know if something's > broken there. That's why I mentioned that I was presently using XKBoard, which seems to be the standard. It's the default even in 3.3.6 of XFree86. This in my mind, means that this problem isn't going to go away, and that there should be a solution for it. Now is as good as any. The thing that bugs me most about this, is that with the Mandrake RPM install this is not an issue. With the compile from source it is. What changed? Robert M. Zigweid [snip]