64 and 113 On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:16:35PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Saturday, April 6, Bob Thibodeau did write: > > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:32:59PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:09:00AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > > > I just went back through the archives to questions I thought > > > > would help. They did, but for a different problem ( which > > > > I wasn't having). > > > > > > > > I used to have a 'meta' key in Emacs. I also used to do > > > > Ctrl-A, Alt-d in xterms to erase a command. Now my alt > > > > key doesn't affect the letters at all (alt-x prints 'x'). > > > > > > > > I can still Ctrl-Alt-Fx to switch consoles and > > > > Alt-TAB switches windows in Icewm. > > > > > > Could it be that your window manager thinks alt keys are for him? > > > > I tried without a window manager with the same same results. > > No menu, of course, but no effect from the alt keys. > > First step: see what keysym your alt keys are generating. Run xev (from > the xbase-clients package), make sure the new window has focus, and hit > both alt keys. If you want the plastic bump labeled `alt' on your > keyboard to act as meta in emacs, then you should see something like the > following: > > KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001, > root 0x31, subw 0x0, time 223019973, (56,121), root:(810,145), > state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe7, Meta_L), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" > > KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001, > root 0x31, subw 0x0, time 223020047, (56,121), root:(810,145), > state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe7, Meta_L), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" > > KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001, > root 0x31, subw 0x0, time 223020300, (56,121), root:(810,145), > state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffe8, Meta_R), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" > > KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001, > root 0x31, subw 0x0, time 223020366, (56,121), root:(810,145), > state 0x8, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffe8, Meta_R), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" > > If you see different keysyms, then your X keyboard settings are off. > Check your X server configuration file or use xmodmap(1) or xkeycaps to > adjust this. > > If you don't see any events in response to you hitting the Alt keys, > then something (probably your window manager) is intercepting the keys > before it gets to the server. Adjust your WM config. (Based on your > description above, though, I don't think this is happening.) > > HTH, > > Richard
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