Hi Daniel, the problem is that my keyboard has not two alt keys, but only the left ones. In the alt right key position I have another enter. How can I replace it with the right alt??
Best Riccardo On 4/22/12, Daniel Landau <daniel.lan...@iki.fi> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Riccardo Romoli <ric.rom...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> my name is Riccardo, and I'm a newbie of Debian. Using the Debian-Wiky >> I was able to install Debian 6 as single boot on my MacBookPro >> (v.3.1). The only problem I notice, till now...., is about the Alt key >> that doesn't work. I tried to configure the keyboard with the >> graphical interface but I wasn't able solve my problem. If, for >> example I press Alt+Tab, I was able to switch between the different >> windows, but the Alt key doesn't work both in the various text editors >> (emacs, gedit...) and in the terminal, to type the extra character >> such as tilde, square brackets... >> >> How can I solve this problem? Is there a way to manually map the >> keyboard?? > > Did you choose the Mac/Apple layout when prompted? On my Macbook the > left alt is the meta-key (for window switching, M-x etc. keybindings > in Emacs) and the right alt is used for various extra characters. So > the left and right alt are (usually) not the same key on an Apple > keyboard in GNU/Linux. > > Daniel Landau > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAHiM-bNta21HonZZHM3ja6v=n3qaelbyfycgpsvkgqwew2i...@mail.gmail.com
