Thanks, Mark. Now I see the problem was caused by my video card! At home XF86Setup crashes my system so I used xf86config instead. So the XF86Config file on the two machines were written by different programs.
Chris On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > Chris Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have two machines set up with Woody. When I run X Windows on one I can > > use Alt as the Meta key in Emacs, on the other machine I just get a beep and > > have to use ESC. I'd like to use Alt as Meta on both. Alt works as Meta on > > the console on both. Any idea what I might have done differently to cause > > the difference in behavior? > > You probably have different XF86Config files. To get alt as meta, you > can put it in your "Keyboard" section. Mine is the following: > > Section "Keyboard" > Protocol "Standard" > AutoRepeat 500 4 # was 500 30 > LeftAlt Meta > RightAlt Meta > ScrollLock Compose > RightCtl Control > XkbKeycodes "xfree86" > # XkbKeymap "xfree86(us)" > XkbTypes "default" > XkbCompat "default" > XkbSymbols "us(pc101)" > XkbGeometry "pc" > XkbRules "xfree86" > XkbModel "pc101" > XkbLayout "us" > # XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps" > EndSection > > Hope this helps. > > Cheers, > > Mark. >
