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Bertram Scharpf <b.scharpf@tesionmail.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> sorry, I could not find a documentation about this problem.
> 
> Under Debian/GNU Linux my Emacs Meta key is the one
> between `Control_L' and `Alt_L'. But from SuSE
> Linux I am used `Alt_L' to be the Meta key. Now I don't
> want to change my Debian `.Xmodmap'; rather I want Emacs
> to accept the `Alt_L' in one of the following manners:
I had the same problem. I just switched to standard pc101 keyboard in
X config file and Alt became Meta again.