On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Joseph A. Martin wrote: > Hello, > I feel like this should be a simple thing to do, but I haven't > been able to figure it out so far. I want XEmacs to my Left Alt key as > the Meta key. It works like that when I am running XEmacs from the > console. However, if I run XEmacs from XWindows ESC is my meta key and > Left-Alt is not recognized by XEmacs. What do I need to change to have > XEmacs in XWindows use Left-Alt as the Meta key?
Probably something along these lines: Feed the following from a file to xmodmap: remove mod1 = Alt_L keycode 64 = Meta_L add mod1 = Meta_L Run "xmodmap" by itself first to see what the mod settings are, and then "xmodmap -pk | grep Alt" to see where the Alt keys are. You system may be different. ...RickM...
