Re: FVWM: other meta key bindings

From: Erwin J. van Eijk <eijk_at_huygens.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 08:33:44 +0200

Hi,

> Erwin> I would like to know if someone has been able to use other
> Erwin> keys as a meta key.
>You can use xmodmap to tell any key to be Meta_L or Meta_R. But you
>can't have more than one Meta_L key, likewise for Meta_R.

<smack on the head> Right, that figures. I have an LK401 keyboard
which has 4 keys which can quite well be defined as Meta keys. I was
stunned by this effect however, because Fvwm cannot deal with multiple
Meta_L bindings, but Emacs can!

>You can use xmodmap to tell any to that it's got the Meta modifier:
> xmodmap -e "add mod1 = Caps_Lock"
>(Not that this example makes sense.)

Depends, who needs a Caps Lock :)

Erwin
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