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Hi Tom,
On 8 Feb 2016 11:29, "Tom" <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 08/02/16 09:05, Roland Tarver wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> This is probably really simple, but thus far I'm beat...
>>
>> I have recently started using fvwm as my window manager. I use emacs
>> from an xterm on my debian system.
>>
>> Since I began using fvwm the left or right "alt" keys have ceased normal
>> function. For example, "meta-v" should be a "page up" instead it
>> produces a single character, an "o" with two dots above it.
>>
>> Interestingly the graphical version of emacs seems to work fine (still
>> running in fvwm).
>>
>> I am not aware of any change in my emacs keybindings.
>>
>> I have experimented with setxkbmap; the man page was not very helpful,
>> http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1242/ <-- this link was more so. But,
>> still no success. :-s
>>
>> I have had a look through the files found (on my system) at
>> /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules, in particular the file base.lst.
>>
>> I have tried setting an option...
>>
>> $ setxkbmap -option 'altwin:meta_alt'
>>
>> .... which the base.lst file suggests should be "Alt and Meta are on Alt
>> keys"
>>
>> Am I barking up the wrong tree? :-s
>> Thanks for any pointers.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Roly :-)
>>
>>
> Time to go mad!
O dear. Sounds like another can of worms I have opened!
> I've wrestled with things like this before and it can be a nightmare. Sometime you can get somewhere with a bit of code to check that the keyboard and X are actually passing the characters you want - they often aren't.
Ok. Thanks. Unfortunately it's been a long time since I did any programming and I wasnt that great when I did. Lol. ...
You need a simple console version and then an X version tcl may need to be resurrected!
> You are running the console through the GUI or logging in via SSH....
The xterm is running in the gui. It's running in a screen session too.
On the same machine I used to use a gnome terminal (rather than an xterm) and run emacs in a screen session with xfce with no trouble. Although I could obviously swap back to xfce I dont really want to, just for this small problem.
I assumed it would merely be a matter of a setting in a config file somewhere. Bother.
Hmmm...
Many thanks
Roly
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