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Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org> writes:

> Joao de Sa Coutinho <joao@teaser.fr> writes:
> 
> > Can anyone tell me how I can reconfigure this, so that Alt becomes Meta ? Xev
> > shows the keysym to be Alt_L, BTW.
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MetaKeyProblems has some
> info on this...

Indeed it has the answer. I need to execute the command

  xmodmap -e "clear mod4"

and there's no more Meta, so then Alt gets recognized. Although I couldn't get
this to be recognized inside a .Xmodmap nor a .xmodmaprc file, so I had to look
for what .xinitrc file was being executed (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc on my Debian
3.0) and add that command in there.
> 
> Alex.

Thanks Alex, problem solved.

Joao