On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 08:41:39PM +0000, Johann Myrkraverk Oskarsson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Thomas Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 5 February 2010 09:36, Johann "Myrkraverk" Oskarsson > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Snipped, and thank you. > > >> And on the subject of keybindings, why is that I use M (meta) to say > >> "alt" when my meta and alt keys are different according to xev? > > > > For that very reason -- Meta doesn't *have* to refer to Alt, since > > some keyboards (Sun, I believe) do have an actual "Meta" key. > > Honestly, I don't follow. I have my windows key generate Meta [*] and > find it slightly disturbing that I use M for Alt. How do I refer to > my Meta key? Not that I really want to, I use it extensively in > Emacs.
You use xmodmap for this, and usually xev, to get the keysym so you can tell the mapping via xmodmap what the key is. It's in the FVWM FAQ. #5.5 would be a good reference. Oh, seems I already did this six years ago: http://xteddy.org/~n6tadam/fvwm/tips/misc/modifiers.txt -- Thomas Adam -- "It was the cruelest game I've ever played and it's played inside my head." -- "Hush The Warmth", Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
