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Re: Meta Key under XFree-3.2 (using Emacs).

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Weible)
Wed Nov 27 22:14:25 1996

Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:12:03 -0700 (MST)
From: Todd Weible <toddw@cyberhighway.net>
To: smurphy@antares.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <9611272355.ZM10395@stardust.bln.sub.org>
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Joerg Mertin wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>=20
> Just wonder if some of you got the Meta (left_Alt) key working under Emac=
s
> (running XFree-3.2).
>=20
> I=B4m using the "new" XFree86-3.2-2.i386.rpm from the Devel tree :) I can=
 state,
> the Keyboard extension works great now, except for this little Problem, b=
ut
> could be due to a Configuration problem here. Here the Important part of =
the
> XF86Config file:
>=20
> Section "Keyboard"
>    Protocol        "Standard"
>    XkbRules        "xfree86"
>    XkbModel        "microsoft"
                      ^^^^^^^^^

When I did this, I had the same exact problem.  When I use 102 key
standard, I didn't have this problem.

Todd

>    XkbLayout       "de"
>    XkbVariant      "nodeadkeys"
>    LeftAlt     Meta
>    RightAlt    ModeShift
> #    RightCtl    Compose
>    ScrollLock  ModeLock
> EndSection


Todd Weible   "1 is equal to 2 for sufficiently large values of 1" --Anon
toddw@cyberhighway.net or                                Computer Science
tweible@onyx.idbsu.edu                             Boise State University


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