On Son, 2002-01-20 at 03:54, The Doctor What wrote: > * Michel Dänzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020119 20:26]: > > On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 07:42, The Doctor What wrote: > > > > > I would like my Command key to act as a modifier (Meta_L would be okay), > > > but it is refusing to co-operate. > > > > Are you sure that's not a KDE limitation? E.g. does emacs recognize it > > as Meta? > > It does! What does this mean?
KDE is broken. :) I mean, it apparently doesn't support Meta for shortcuts. > > Command is Meta here by default; I suspect Xkb is in fact disabled for > > you because there is no macintosh symbols file for dvorak (yet? :). > > I don't know what I would be using, if not xkb. If Xkb is disabled for any reason (like an unsupported configuration, as I suspect in your case), the X server just uses the kernel's keymap, the one from console. Some things don't work like with Xkb then though. Anyway, maybe Xkb works for you, and I'm just on crack. ;) Look for Xkb related messages in the log to tell. > I don't know what a symbol file is. What can I do to create a macintosh > dvorak symbol file so that this works? Look at the macintosh symbol files in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh and the existing dvorak symbol files. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
