I am not responsible for the Ubuntu package, but it is based on the
Debian package that I now maintain.

On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 00:14 -0700, Red Daly wrote:
> I have recently installed ion3 and am trying to use the windows key 
> rather than the alt key for META.  xmodmap shows the windows key is 
> Mod4, so I made the following edit to cfg_ion.lua in my ~/.ion3/ directory:
>
> -- Set default modifiers. Alt should usually be mapped to Mod1 on
> -- XFree86-based systems. The flying window keys are probably Mod3
> -- or Mod4; see the output of 'xmodmap'.
> META="Mod4+"
> --ALTMETA=""
> 
> from
> 
> -- Set default modifiers. Alt should usually be mapped to Mod1 on
> -- XFree86-based systems. The flying window keys are probably Mod3
> -- or Mod4; see the output of 'xmodmap'.
> -- META="Mod1+"
> --ALTMETA=""
> 
> I restarted the session and nothing doing.  I restarted my computer and 
> still windows does nothing.

META and ALTMETA are set in /etc/default/ion3 so that they are easy to
change on a system-wide basis without modifying the default
configuration files.  There is a comment about this in cfg_ion.lua
though it is possibly not as obviously as it should be.

<snip>
> p.s.  I am running the ion3 that I apt-got with my ubuntu feisty machine.
> > $ ion3 -V
> > 3ds-20061029

Please be aware that this is quite outdated and will not be supported by
the author (and probably not by Ubuntu either).  You should be able to
build the current version from the Debian source package
<http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/i/ion3/ion3_20070720-1.dsc>
(<http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-sourcepkgs>
explains how to do this) or from the original tarball
<http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/download.html>.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
[W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent
in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949

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