Thanks for the help Jens. I had indeed modified the X server to use xkb in order to get backspace working properly. I edited the /usr/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 to change xkb_symbols from pc105 to pc101. As you pointed out pc105 was mapping my alt keys to alt and the non-existent windows keys to meta.
Does anyone know of a better way to solve this problem? Should I have rerun one of the X setup or config programs? On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 10:25:59AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > Hi, > > Sometime between Saturday and Monday morning my Alt keys stopped working > in Xemacs. I thought the only change I made was adding > > (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t) > > however after backing out this change Alt still doesn't work. The > Ctrl-Alt-Fx combination still works to change to a virtual terminal from > X, so the alt key seems to be working. > > > Ex. <Alt-x> prints "A-x not defined" in the minibuffer. "Esc-x" prints the > correct "M-x". > > I tried to insert the character into a buffer with <Ctrl-q><Alt-x>. I received > the following message in the minibuffer: > > key read cannot be inserted in a buffer: #<keypress-event alt-x> > > Does anyone have any suggestions on debugging this problem? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
