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Alt and Meta modifiers




        Hi all,

        When I work on my Sun station I bind a few emacs-function
with Alt-something keys.  And emacs binds a  lot  of its function
with  Meta-something.  On  Sun   keyboard   I have two   separate
modifiers  Alt and Meta,   so these definitions  don't interfere.
For example Meta-x is the execute-extended-command emacs function
and Alt-x is the my own exit function.

        In Linux we have only one Alt modifier. All tools (I know
about emacs and  tcsh) use it as Meta  modifier.  Can I use  left
Alt as Meta and right Alt  as Alt ? I  tried to play with xmodmap
but never had success. Does somebody knows way how to do this?

Thanks,
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