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Lothar Braun wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 17:32 +0200, Johs32 wrote:
>> How do I enter the minibuffer and start an xterm or run another linux
>> command??
> 
> Just press M-! and enter the command you want to run.
> 
> -- Lothar


How do I do that?? I have tried Alt+1, Alt+Shift+1 but that does not give
me: M-!

I have tried Alt+M+Alt+x which gives me:

M-x but from there I cannot type eg. xterm