"Thomas E. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my Pentium-133 machine. > > I used dselect's FTP mode to install emacs-19.34, X, and AfterStep. > My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' > by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works well enough to switch > between windows. > > I much prefer `Alt-x' to `Esc-x' as a means of entering an emacs command. > But the `Alt' key is not functioning as `Meta'. Has anyone else seen this > behavior? Surely it should not be the default behavior, but I have done > very little customization and am inclined to suspect that it is. Yuck. > I would appreciate any assistance. > > Thanks.
Well, I have seen that behavior on my machine, but that's because I have a 104-key keyboard (with the three silly Win95 keys), and my Meta is the Windows logo key, rather than alt. Did you perhaps accidentally tell XF86Setup that you have a 104-key keyboard, not a 101-key one? What is the result of the following commands: xmodmap xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]' -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
