From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris Seberino Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Trouble binding Alt *by itself* to the execute-extended-command...(Alt-x and ESC-x work fine.) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 14:18:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6a969c8d-e606-4143-afd1-83ee32c82aeb@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373145619 28494 80.91.229.3 (6 Jul 2013 21:20:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 21:20:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 06 23:20:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UvZtx-0001Kz-E3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2013 23:20:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60176 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UvZtx-0001MG-04 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2013 17:20:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.86.200 with SMTP id t8mr18328350qal.0.1373145507470; Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:18:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.12.141 with SMTP id y13mr345615qeb.41.1373145507416; Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:18:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!t19no585958qam.0!news-out.google.com!f7ni1003qai.0!nntp.google.com!t19no614277qam.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=74.194.237.26; posting-account=VkuUtQkAAADKqMjRUmZTNs7a8uCSNNy2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.194.237.26 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 21:18:27 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199723 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:91990 Archived-At: Alt-x invokes the execute-extended-command just fine. I'd like the Alt key *by itself* to this command. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04. I've read a few docs on X Windows, xmodmap, xev, Ubuntu Unity 3D but *still* can't seem to make this work. cs