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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

This can be fixed with xmodmap. From the xmodmap man page:
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       Many applications support the notion of Meta keys (similar to
Control keys except that Meta is held down instead of Control).  However,
some servers do not have a Meta keysym in the default keymap table, so one
needs to be added by hand.  The following command will attach Meta to the
Multi-language key (sometimes labeled Compose Character).  It also takes
advantage of the fact that applications that need a Meta key simply need
to get the keycode and don't require the keysym to be in the first column
of the keymap table.  This means that applications that are looking for a
Multi_key (including the default modifier map) won't notice any change.

            %  xmodmap -e "keysym Multi_key = Multi_key Meta_L"

       Similarly, some keyboards have an Alt key but no Meta key. In that
case the following may be useful:

            %  xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L"
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This last command is probably what you'll want to use. You can add this to
your ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc before the window manager starts, OR you
can add just the stuff between the quotes into ~/.Xmodmap (this assumes
the xinitrc or xsession are loading this file.

Hope this helps. The 'xev' utility can be useful for showing what X
interprets a key stroke as.

-casey


On 12 Aug 2002, David McNab wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 02:32, Robin wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 02:14:01AM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> > > Just one painful problem - in XEmacs, the Alt key is being interpreted
> > > as a Meta key.
> > Hrm, I always thought that the two were synonomous (Alt-x being M-x).
> > Anyway, this reminds me of a couple of similar problems I am haveing.
> 
> Well, they're no more identical than '3' and 'W'.
> 
> Anyway, I've noticed that my right-logo key hasn't been molested by
> sourceMage, so I'm using that instead of Alt.
> But it's still not right - I'm unable to use one-handed key combinations
> for keys on the left end of the keyboard, eg Alt-Q or Alt-R. The left
> logo key doesn't do anything.
> 
> So, to whoever set up the XEmacs spell, or anyone with good X or Emacs
> expertise, I'd really appreciate some simple advice on how to correct
> this problem.
> 
> Thanks so much
> David
> 
> > 
> > I have the dvorak key layout, and when I use that mode, there is no
> > right-alt. It seems to cause some kind of modification, but I'm not sure
> > what. I can switch back to US qwerty layout, and it appears again.
> > 
> > I have also lost alt-tab in KDE, no matter what mode (or alt key) I use.
> > Simply, nothing happens
> > 
> > -- 
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