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Re: Alt and Meta modifiers



danielv@msil.sps.mot.com (Daniel Vainer) wrote:
>  
>          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?

Make sure you have the following lines uncommented in your XF86Config file:

    LeftAlt     Meta
    RightAlt    ModeShift

(This should be in the "Keyboard" section)

Evgeny

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