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From: Fredrik Staxeng <fstx+u@update.uu.se>
Subject: Re: Alt key in woody
Date: 12 Oct 2002 08:41:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1mwuoojh07.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d6qjgcuo.fsf@linux.net.cn

Wu XiaoGuang <xgwu@linux.net.cn> writes:

>Maybe it's the fault of myself.

Well, no. This is seriously underdocumented, so trial and error is the only
way to learn.

>Now my ~/.xinitrc contains:
>
>,----
>|     xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L" &
                                                ^
You don't need that. It doesn't hurt (much), but things like xmodmap
and xrdb is best run synchronously in the foreground. On things
like xclock and xbiff you need it of course.

>|     
>|     # start icewm, and run xterm if it crashes (just to be safe)
>|     exec icewm || exec xterm -fg red

That is a good one.

-- 
Fredrik Stax\"ang | rot13: sfgk@hcqngr.hh.fr

      reply	other threads:[~2002-10-12  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-09  5:13 Alt key in woody Wu XiaoGuang
2002-10-09  6:52 ` Fredrik Staxeng
2002-10-10  4:02   ` Wu XiaoGuang
2002-10-12  6:41     ` Fredrik Staxeng [this message]

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