Re: newbie- meta key mapping

[Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 08:04:13AM +0100, toto wrote:
> Hello, world!
> 
> I would be very happy if you could help me, i'm a bit lost in all the
> doc i've read.
> I'm using emacs with the keyborad-coding-system and the
> terminal-coding-system in mode latin 1.
> So, the alt key is used to produce non-ASCII characters. I have now to
> use the ESC key for the meta key.
> I have on my keyboard a WIN key that is not used.  Could I use it in
> the functino of the META key? How to do that?
> 

If you are using GNU/Linux (and probably any other unix-like OS) you
can do that by using the xmodmap program to map win to meta. I have
done that in my pc104 keyboard, since I use the Alt key for bindings
for my window manager.

If you are not very fammiliar with the xmodmap syntax there is a
program xkeycaps that is a nice graphical interface to xmodmap.
You can get it here http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/

The relevant lines in my .Xmodmap seem to be

    keycode 0x73 =	   Meta_L
    keycode 0x40 =	   Alt_L
    keycode 0x71 =	   Alt_R
    keycode 0x74 =	   Meta_R
    keycode 0x75 =	   Menu
    
    clear Mod1
    clear Mod4

    add    Mod1    = Alt_L Alt_R
    add    Mod4    = Meta_L Meta_R

HTH

> Thanks a lot for your help
> 
> A.J
> 

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