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: Windows steals my 'Alt-' (was Re: M-TAB already used by KDE) Date: 18 Dec 2002 23:38:42 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1misxrq7f1.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> References: <3dff7248.1320484@news.cis.dfn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040251263 32328 80.91.224.249 (18 Dec 2002 22:41:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:41:03 +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 18Omrg-0008O4-00 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:40:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Omrf-000291-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:40:31 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 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 1040250163 news.update.uu.se (18 Dec 2002 23:22:43 +0100) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!newshub1.home.nl!home.nl!sunsite.dk!news.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!puffinus.its.uu.se Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:76522 gnu.emacs.help:108272 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4801 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4801 Jonathon Isaac Swiderski writes: >I have a similar issue --- I'm using Emacs in Windows XP via Exceed (that >is, Emacs is running on my login server; i'm using an XP terminal with >Exceed generating an X session), and Windows keeps grabbing the 'Alt' key >for the menubar, so i can't use it for a Meta. Emacs uses an X window displayed by Exceed, right? >How do I either: > a) Tell Emacs to interpret 'CapsLock' or something else as 'M-'? > That is, I'd like to use something else as the modifier--- part of > my problem here is that I don't know what codes Alt, [Win], > CapsLock, etcetera, generate; but I also am not clear on how I'd use > them once I had them. If Exceed lets Windows interpret Alt, chances are good that it lets Windows interpret Caps Lock as well. But you could try with xkeycaps or xev to see if it sends key events for Caps Lock to an X program. Then you could assign the keysym Meta to it. > b) Tell Windows not to use Alt key for menu activation? (less > preferred; I can't take my windows settings with me between > sessions--- long story) This has to be a setting in Exceed, not in Windows itself. -- Fredrik Stax\"ang | rot13: sfgk@hcqngr.hh.fr