- From: Abigail <abigail@ny.fnx.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 16:44:57 -0500 (EST)
- To: schampeo@hesketh.com (Steven Champeon)
- Cc: devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu, dsr@w3.org, scotti@microsoft.com, www-html@w3.org
You, Steven Champeon, wrote: ++ ++ At 08:23 PM 3/3/97 -0500, nemo/Joel N. Weber II wrote: ++ >And on X, the control key is not likely to be used in anything except ++ >shell windows. Also, it's one of the few modifiers that seems to exist ++ >on almost all X terminals (sun keyboards don't have a key marked 'alt'). ++ ++ My Sun5c keyboard has an alt key - it's just that (as Jamie Zawinski ++ points out in his comments on the Netscape.ad (app defaults) file, ++ it doesn't send "alt", it sends "meta") - there is also a meta, or ++ "diamond" key, which for reasons unbeknownst to me, sends "alt" when ++ it is pressed. YMMV. That's why I have the following in my .xinitrc file: # Let the ALT do the +0x80 stuff too. xmodmap -e "remove Mod4 = Alt_L" xmodmap -e "add Mod1 = Alt_L" Abigail
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