At 13:00 Uhr -0400 8.8.2006, Jeffrey Loren Shaw wrote:

[This is quite old, but there has been no public answer, at least.]

>Getting back to X for a moment, I recall that I used to do ctrl-alt-delete
>to exit X sessions. Obviously this doesn't work for me. I don't remember any
>other way to exit X so for now I'm unable to use X.
>
>This leads me to the question, do any of you know how to get the apple key
>or option key on my mac extneded keyboard to work as the meta key in emacs?
>I've seen some tips that the keymap is compiled into the kernel.

X11 does its own keyboard mapping; please see xev(1) and xmodmap(1).

There is an Xmodmap for a German keyboard layout floating around since
1997, from which you could copycat the alt & cmd mappings.

HTH,
	hauke

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