Meta key?

Meta key?

[bgm-rao]

I use VNC from windows to work on Linux. I am not able use the Alt/Win key as Meta key in emacs? 
How do I get this to work?

Regards,
Madhu

Re: Meta key?

[Kai Grossjohann]

bgm-rao@ieee.org writes:

> I use VNC from windows to work on Linux. I am not able use the
> Alt/Win key as Meta key in emacs?

What does Emacs show when you hit Alt+x, then C-h l?

Kai

Re: Meta key?

[bgm-rao]

Kai,
        I get a history of all things I did on the emacs window:

<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> A-x C-h l

Is there something I need to change to get the intended behaviour?

Thanks and Regards.

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:08:48 +0100
From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: Meta key?
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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bgm-rao@ieee.org writes:

> I use VNC from windows to work on Linux. I am not able use the
> Alt/Win key as Meta key in emacs?

What does Emacs show when you hit Alt+x, then C-h l?

Kai

Re: Meta key?

[Kai Grossjohann]

bgm-rao@ieee.org writes:

> Kai,
>         I get a history of all things I did on the emacs window:
>
> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
> <mouse-movement> A-x C-h l

The A-x shows you that Emacs is seeing the meta key as Alt, instead of
Meta.  (Normally, Emacs will show M-x instead of A-x.)

Can you reconfigure VNC to change the behavior of the Meta/Alt key?

Does it work to use the key to the left of the Alt key as Meta?

Kai

Re: Meta key?

[graham]

bgm-rao@ieee.org writes:

> I use VNC from windows to work on Linux. I am not able use the
> Alt/Win key as Meta key in emacs?
> How do I get this to work?

If you're using TightVNC, try starting the Linux Xvnc server with the
-compatiblekbd option.


Graham