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[David McNab <david AT rebirthing.co.nz>]

Thanks to all who responded to my call for help.

As it happens, no amount of xmodmap'ing seems to stop emacs from
interpreting Alt as Meta.

But I did find a workaround.

In .Xmodmaprc, I swapped things over, so that ALT keypresses actually
generate Super_R, and logo keys generate Alt.

Then, I assigned Super_R to mod1, and Alt_R to mod4.

Result? The 'logo' key (with the M$ trademark) now generates the M-
prefix in Emacs, and Alt now generates the S- (super) prefix.

All I've had to change is to use 'super' as the prefix name for handling
alt keys, eg (global-set-key '(super \c) 'copy-region-as-kill)

My .Xmodmap entries appear below:

! swapped - these normally generate Alt
keycode  64 = Super_R
keycode 113 = Super_R

! swapped - these normally generate 'Logo' key
keycode 115 = Alt_R
keycode 116 = Alt_R

add mod1 = Super_R
add mod4 = Alt_R

Cheers
David



On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 04:39, Casey Harkins wrote:
> This can be fixed with xmodmap. From the xmodmap man page:
> ----
>        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"
> ----
> 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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> > > 
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