Hi Joerg, to answer you question let me attache the answer I got when I asked the same question quite some time ago. Works perfectly for me every time I updated ;-)
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:53:04AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> > I can understand you. The next keyboard I'll buy won't have those
> > nasty keys.
That exactly the right attitude!
> BTW, where did you last see a keyboard without windows key?
Looking down, yep! ;-)
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:27:46 -0500
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Subject: Re: meta key in emacs
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This problem has come up so many times since hamm started getting used that
it almost
merits its own HOWTO. What's happened is that you've upgraded X and now you
are using
the XKEYBOARD extension. As you've noticed, the ALT key now does ALT and the
"windows"
key is now the META key. I've argued several times that this is a bug since
it changes
behavior. Alas no one listens to this raving madman. Where's whatcha do (as
root):
sed -e 's/Alt_L/Foo_L/' -e 's/Alt_R/Foo_R/' < /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/us |\
sed -e 's/Meta_L/Alt_L/' -e 's/Meta_R/Alt_R/' |\
sed -e 's/Foo_L/Meta_L/' -e 's/Foo_R/Meta_R/' >
/usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/us.new
mv /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/us /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/us.old
mv /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/us.new /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/us
Now restart X and Things should work normally.
Michael Symalla wrote:
> Dear Debian users,
>
> can anyone help me to let my Alt-key be the metakey in emacs? Now I am
> using the ESC key, which works fine but is not as comfortable as the ALT
> key.
>
> Thanks a lot.
> --
> Bye
> Mitch
Bye
Mitch.
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