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

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