On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:52:54AM +0000, Tiarnan O Corrain wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:40:41PM -0500, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:25:31PM +0000, Tiarnan O Corrain wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > I've a problem running emacs on my Compaq Armada 7770DMT laptop. The > > > Alt key isn't working, so I can't get any M-x type commands. Does > > > anyone know why? Debian is the only dist I've run on this laptop, so I > > > don't know whether it's a specifically Debian problem. > > > > If you have the "windows" keys, try using them instead of Alt. > > I haven't got the windows keys, and my XF86Config setup is exactly the > same as yours, so I'm still looking for suggestions. > > Thx anyway > > Tiarnan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can set the alt key as the meta using xkeycaps. You than have to save the Xmodmap file (I had to do this too). I just replaced my system file. Dan -- Daniel E Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web location: http://www.msoe.edu/~baumannd "Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code." -- Dave Olsen And if cynics ridicule freedom, ridicule community...if ``hard nosed realists'' say that profit is the only ideal...just ignore them, and use copyleft all the same. -- RMS
