I have Debian woody on one machine, and in Emacs the Alt key functions as the Meta-key. That's fine.
I installed potato on another machine (without going through slink). The alt-key won't function as meta in Emacs on this one. I've used xev to check. Sure enough alt is there, but not for Emacs. I've looked int Jespersen's Emacs book; for this problem he suggests asking your system admin. Well that's me and I'm no help. I've googled the topic, and got one posting to this list with the same question but no follow-up in the thread! ___________ A related question: The .Xresources seems to get ignored by emacs when it loads, even though netscape pays attention to the .Xresources file. ( I do the xrdb -merge .Xresources, btw). Any emacs users there? Nick.
