From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Xmodmap struggles Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:18:19 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4ebfbd69-0ace-40e8-ab89-831a88130867@z3g2000prz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296201676 18019 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 08:01:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:01:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 28 09:01:12 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PijGZ-0007w1-Qk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:01:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60082 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PijGY-0005oj-V0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:01:11 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z3g2000prz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.73.35.230 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1296199099 14633 127.0.0.1 (28 Jan 2011 07:18:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:18:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z3g2000prz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.73.35.230; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184643 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78795 Archived-At: 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 The .Xmodmap is clear mod1 keycode 0x70 = Alt_R keycode 0x40 = Super_R add mod1 = Super_R add mod3 = Alt_R (His ubuntu mine debian) Context: Trying to get apl running in xemacs