From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Trouble binding Alt *by itself* to the execute-extended-command...(Alt-x and ESC-x work fine.) Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 14:51:18 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87hag6v8hl.fsf@informatimago.com> References: <6a969c8d-e606-4143-afd1-83ee32c82aeb@googlegroups.com> <85b6caa3-a637-401d-8a00-e49868ea8832@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373201720 18376 80.91.229.3 (7 Jul 2013 12:55:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 12:55:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 07 14:55:22 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 1UvoUs-0005X6-2d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jul 2013 14:55:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33432 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UvoUr-0003bE-OP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jul 2013 08:55:21 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: individual.net y3m7SImxafXKneiD6GeGzgqdbTaIkU1WT5db2i7Q0aQLQey9V8 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NzdmNGYyM2I0YzE1NTk3YmJmNTMxM2RmM2FmNjRhMjUyMzExNjNiMQ== sha1:XhedPWtFDbTHcEaQGCs//R7APSE= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199736 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:92002 Archived-At: Chris Seberino writes: > Thank you all for your help. I finally got it. > In Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS with Emacs 23.3.1 I did the following: > > 1. Remap Alt keys to the menu key... > > xmodmap -e "keycode 64 = Menu" > xmodmap -e "keycode 108 = Menu" As I proposed in my first answer, it's obviously the Execute keysym that should be used, to map to the execute-extended-command command. You would bind Menu to tmm-menubar. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. You know you've been lisping too long when you see a recent picture of George Lucas and think "Wait, I thought John McCarthy was dead!" -- Dalek_Baldwin