On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Chris Menzel wrote: > This seems to be LyX-specific. LeftAlt works fine as Meta under emacs and > xemacs out of the box. But under LyX it works as I believe it is designed > to by default, viz., like an Alt key, i.e., Alt-f brings up the File menu, > Alt-d the Document menu, etc. The most I've been able to do using xmodmap > is simply to deactivate Alt alt-ogether. :-)
Chris, Have you tried the [Esc] key? I've found linux apps that accept that as the meta key; emacs, for example. Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863