[Balug-talk] Annoying windows keys..

[William R Ward]

Chris Waters writes:
>On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 03:17:49PM -0700, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
>
>> I'm curious to find out what interesting uses people have 
>> remapped them to? 
>
>On Debian systems, by default, the Alt key is mapped to Alt, the Win
>key is mapped to Meta, and the menu key is mapped to menu.  If there
>were another modifier key available, it would probably be mapped to
>Super.
>
>Using standard X keymappings like this provides the greatest possible
>flexibility, IMO.

As a Debian user, I find this terribly irritating.  I want Alt to be
Meta in Emacs.  I used xmodmap to defeat this behavior, but that took
away any ability to use the Win key.

--Bill.

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