*- On 3 Feb, Rob Mahurin wrote about "Meta and Alt keys" > > 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. >
My keyboard section in my XF86Config is this and the left and right window keys default to Meta_L and Meta_R resp. It also set the menu key Menu which can be bound in some apps like Xemacs which defaults the menu key to `popup-mode-menu'. Also in Xemacs I see that the alt keys produce A- . Section "Keyboard" Protocol "Standard" AutoRepeat 500 5 XkbKeymap "xfree86(us_microsoft)" EndSection Hope this helps, -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." - unknown Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------