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From: "Mario Castelán Castro" <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Would like to have alt key mapped to Windows key
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 15:27:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <edfc93a6-9492-dbe9-12d9-338da331ff6b@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fecf3dd1-2643-4943-96b3-689990e0e4fa@googlegroups.com>

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On 04/11/17 14:23, sellputcall@gmail.com wrote:
> My keyboard's alt key seems to have conked out. Both of them.
> So alt keys in emacs are missing which is a real pain. I dont want to rely on the Esc key all the time.
> 
> Is there a way to map the windows key, which emacs seems to call "s-" to the alt key. This would be very convenient to have until i replace my laptop keyboard.

I do not know of how to do this in Emacs, but you can do it system-wide
with xmodmap and maybe setxkbmap (check the man pages). You can place a
command for this in “~/.xsessionrc” or equivalent.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-04 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-04 20:23 Would like to have alt key mapped to Windows key sellputcall
2017-11-04 21:27 ` Mario Castelán Castro [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.2929.1509830892.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-11-10 17:54   ` sellputcall

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