[posted and mailed] "Christina Haustrup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 3E0F5627.000003.00972@Min:">news:3E0F5627.000003.00972@Min:
> > I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm quite new to the world of LyX, and > now I've spent almost a day figuring out how to get this thing on the > road. I have an up and running version of LyX, and I am using XWin32 > as an X-server. Everything seems to be working, except for the fact > that Alt does not work as a Meta_L. I've checked the keybord > configurations in XWin32, and they seem to be correct (Alt is mapped > to Meta_L). Does XWin32 come with a reasonably complete set of X utility programs? (I switched away from XWin32 a few years back, and I've forgotten what it had.) If so, just to double check, please open an xterm window and type 'xmodmap -pm'. There should be a line saying 'mod1 Alt-L (0x40), Alt-R (0x71)'. If not, then your XWin32 setup is the problem. If XWin32 doesn't have an xterm command (or doesn't have xmodmap), perhaps you could crank up XWin32, then telnet to a Unix/Linux box, open an xterm on your PC from that remote server, and run xmodmap from the remote server. I'm not positive, but I don't think the alternative keyboard files in LyX allow you to remap the Meta keys themselves, so XWin32 is the logical suspect. -- Paul ************************************************************************* Paul A. Rubin Phone: (517) 432-3509 Department of Management Fax: (517) 432-1111 The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) ************************************************************************* Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different. J. W. v. GOETHE
