From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: alt key on Fedora not working Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:34:25 +0100 Message-ID: <0CF7949A-EA84-4771-A70D-B10C18EE4B5F@Web.DE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323164091 3494 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2011 09:34:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 09:34:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Jai Dayal Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 06 10:34:47 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXrQD-0002ei-2J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:34:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46784 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXrQ6-0000qC-HL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57249) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXrPx-0000px-M1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:34:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXrPw-000632-N4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:51565) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXrPw-00062m-Ec for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from moweb002.kundenserver.de (moweb002.kundenserver.de [172.19.20.108]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741BB1A42F29F for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:34:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from peter-dyballas-macbook-pro.fritz.box ([88.153.242.186]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0LoHP7-1Qrful0ApN-00gVLT; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:34:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:pLjnUmNM7J6BD9hKcOE5HozeANIhD/rdumCiC+A3DFK tfFqlorbwJfS1j/1frMD2VmBtbOf3J7C84BqiSTjr7h7X1sqrL 336KXQfZVqNfAgMTVz5c73umFFVwJ8659gYsQhcjzLepZxU8xi VXBAKpPkktqRi9bFLazZPt8+JX20VUUoHo9BrYPqSDRhxyaUDp zixK/vlqaTDUpxh3MMLpQ== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 217.72.192.221 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83140 Archived-At: Am 06.12.2011 um 02:29 schrieb Jai Dayal: > On fedora 16 xfce, 64-bit, the alt key no longer works as it's = supposed to > for emacs (Meta key). I have to use escape instead. Any idea what's > happened and how I should fix it? With xmodmap and xev you can investigate some settings valid for X11 and = how they work You can also set the X server's behaviour. (GNU Emacs, = when launched as an X client, does not read key presses and releases but = receives key events from the X server =96 and these are already a bit = translated from what your fingers perform.) -- Greetings Pete If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me = as a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. = Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and = Germany will declare that I am a Jew. =96 Albert Einstein, 1929