From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fredrik Staxeng Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alt key in woody Date: 09 Oct 2002 08:52:13 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <1m8z18cdeq.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> References: <8c53236b.0210082113.3c3fc46c@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034146627 13089 127.0.0.1 (9 Oct 2002 06:57:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 06:57:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17zAmG-0003Oi-00 for ; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 08:57:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17zAlQ-0000je-00; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 02:56:12 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: news.update.uu.se Original-X-Trace: puffinus.its.uu.se 1034145662 news.update.uu.se (9 Oct 2002 08:41:02 +0100) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!newsfeed1.telenordia.se!algonet!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!puffinus.its.uu.se Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105855 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2402 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2402 woohsiaokuang@yahoo.com.cn (Wu XiaoGuang) writes: >Hi, all: > I just installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 . The GNU Emacs version is > 21.2 . > I couldn't use Alt key normally. Although I could use it it in > terminal (emacs -nw), it's a little unsuitable. > I tried to put >,---- >| xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L" & >`---- > in ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession , but after I do this, I can't startx > later. > > Thank you. I put only the Meta keysym on the Alt key, since Meta and Alt are synonymous. keysym Alt_L = Meta_L keysym Alt_R = Meta_R And then you have to check that all Meta keys are mapped to the mod1 Modifier. ; xmodmap -pm xmodmap: up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lock Caps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d), Control_L (0x73), Control_R (0x74) mod1 Meta_L (0x40), Meta_R (0x71) mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 mod4 Control_L (0x73) mod5 Scroll_Lock (0x4e) Or you could just use the pc101 keyboard layout in X. Then there will be no Meta mapping on the Windows key, so the Alt key will be Meta. Your fix should work by itself, so it seems that your problem is to get the rest of the .xinitrc to work. Oh, and lose the & on the xmodmap line. -- Fredrik Stax\"ang | rot13: sfgk@hcqngr.hh.fr