Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I had occasion today to be playing on a Sun Sparcstation which ran XDM with | the chooser. Out of curiosity, I entered my machine's address, and whoa! | it worked! So I was playing around on my own system from the Sun for a | little while, complete with the Sun's Unix keyboard, and discovered that | it's really handy to have a real Meta key in addition to an Alt. For one | thing, it works from xemacs (alt does not), and it eliminates the annoying | bug that fvwm2 has where the Alt key spontaneously quits being useful as a | panning/shortcut/windowmanager key and starts getting passed to programs. | | I think it would be really handy to change my keymap (either in X or the | console, or both) so that Alt is an Alt key and the useless Win95 Start key | is a Meta key.
Hmm, I thought this was the default. I seem to distinctly remember changing that around because I hated those d*mn Windows keys so much I removed them from my keyboard! I'm using slink on my main system so maybe that's the difference? Anyway, the "xkeycaps" program is your friend in X! I think it's in it's own Debian package? It allows you to define the keys anyway you want, save it to a file, and I think tells you how to load it by default when you log in. | However, I haven't been able to find any accurate documentation on how to do | this. The Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO on my system is dated 16 November 1997 | and whatever it told me to do to change the default keymap for the console | (I tried this a month or two ago, just for kicks) didn't work; I could load | the new map manually but something else was being booted. The same for X: I | have seen several references to xmodmap, but have also seen that it is | defunct and has been replaced by something which is not named. | | How would I do this? This also seems like something which would be helpful | as a system default, since so many newbies (me included) are putting Linux | on a < 3 year old Windows system. As I said, to each his own, but I hate those keys, even in Windows. Can't count the times in a game I was trying to hit the Alt key and hit the Win key instead only to be popped back to desktop. As I said, I pryed those suckers completely off! In addition, under Linux I redefined my Alt keys, via xkeycaps, to be my Meta key for XEmacs too. Good Luck, Gary
