From: "darthemacs@gmail.com" <darthemacs@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Xmodmap struggles
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:17:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d434e6c.1192e60a.416b.ffffda29@mx.google.com> (raw)
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Try the sawfish window manager. It's extensible and written in cl and is emacs buddy. Great keyboard control.
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From: "Tyler Smith" <tyler.smith@eku.edu>
Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2011 3:49 pm
Subject: Xmodmap struggles
To: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
> Trying to change Alt key behavior
> On a friends machine
> $ xmodmap .Xmodmap
>
> works but on mine I get
>
> X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range
> for operation)
> Major opcode of failed request: 118 (X_SetModifierMapping)
> Value in failed request: 0x17
> Serial number of failed request: 15
> Current serial number in output stream: 15
Try running xev on your machine. I suspect the keycodes are different on
the two machines, and you're using the wrong ones for your keyboard.
Tyler
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