Hoi Nick! Nick> I installed potato on another machine (without going through slink). The Nick> alt-key won't function as meta in Emacs on this one. I've used xev to Nick> check. Sure enough alt is there, but not for Emacs.
Load xkeycaps and set one of your alts modifier to Mod4 (which is meta). Nick> A related question: The .Xresources seems to get ignored by emacs when it Nick> loads, even though netscape pays attention to the .Xresources file. ( I do Nick> the xrdb -merge .Xresources, btw). Hmm, it works fine here (I use woody to). ,---- .Xresources | xemacs*Background: DarkSlateGray | xemacs*Foreground: darkgray | | xemacs.geometry: 84x34+9+16 `---- -- ignotus "Hello," he lied. -- Don Carpenter, quoting a Hollywood agent