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I had to use "Meta_L" & "Meta_R"...
Authored by: nicksay on Sep 05, '03 10:41:49PM

Well, I don't run Open Office, but I do regularly ssh into some remote unix machines and run a emacs session over X11.

This hint held great promise for me, because I could never get simple things like "page up" to work in emacs, which requires the keystroke "Meta-V". Furthermore, I couldn't find ANY info on the aforementioned "xve" command, but I DID find info for the "xev" command. Using that program, I found that without any .Xmodmap file, the option key was representing "Mode_switch" and my command key was representing "Meta_L".

So, modifying the above "version a", my .Xmodmap file looks like this:

clear Mod1
clear Mod2
keycode 63 = Mode_switch
keycode 66 = Meta_L
keycode 69 = Meta_R
add Mod1 = Meta_L
add Mod1 = Meta_R
add Mod2 = Mode_switch

This enabled the option key to work as the "meta" key in emacs, as it is supposed to.

Hope this helps anyone still having problems with this.



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