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: 12 Oct 2002 08:41:44 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <1mwuoojh07.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> References: <8c53236b.0210082113.3c3fc46c@posting.google.com> <1m8z18cdeq.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> <87d6qjgcuo.fsf@linux.net.cn> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034405361 14967 127.0.0.1 (12 Oct 2002 06:49:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 06:49:21 +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 180G5Q-0003tG-00 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 08:49:20 +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 180G2Z-0008HL-00; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 02:46:23 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 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 1034404221 news.update.uu.se (12 Oct 2002 08:30:21 +0100) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!puffinus.its.uu.se Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105961 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:2507 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2507 Wu XiaoGuang 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