Hello, On Sat, 09 Aug 2008, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 09 August 2008 13:03:32 Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
Hi,
In configuration of Desktop KDE 4.x/All Effects shortcuts appears the term meta, what means it and how can I activated?
It depends a bit on your keyboard layout, but usually, "meta" is the "alt" key on your keyboard
Alt != Meta But, yes, the left Alt key is often (wrongly) used as Meta. man xkeycaps is (or was) rather explicit: ==== man 1x xkeycaps ==== S.u.S.E. Linux is even more screwed up than HP [..] First, their default keymap has the Control modifier attached to both the Control key and the Multi_key. This is completely crazy, because not only is Multi_key not a control key, it's not even a chording key! It mustn't have any modifier bits attached to it at all. Second, they attach Mod1 to Meta_L and also to Alt_R. Some people think that ``meta'' and ``alt'' are synonyms, but the fact is that the X Window System does not agree. Those are distinct keys. It's possible to have both ``meta'' and ``alt'' keys on the keyboard at the same time, and to have programs interpret them distinctly. But of course only if they don't bogusly share the same modi fier bit, making the interpretation of that bit be ambigu ous. [there's more yet] ==== BTW: I don't have any modifiers attached to the Multi_key (aka Compose), and it works just as it's supposed to. For example, in Emacs Alt (A-) is distinct from Meta (M-). $ egrep 'Alt|Meta' ~/.Xmodmap keycode 64 = Alt_L keycode 113 = Alt_R keycode 117 = Meta_R add Mod1 = Meta_R add Mod3 = Alt_L Alt_R Escape (which I additionally have on the Caps-Key) functions as Meta(_L) as well, at least in emacs etc. And I have different functions attached to A-something and M-something in emacs, e.g.: M-r runs `move-to-window-line' A-r runs `revert-buffer' C-r runs `isearch-backward' H-r is undefined -dnh, the old Backronym in the sig has Meta _and_ Alt in there for a reason... -- 92: Emacs Esc Meta Alt Control Shift -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org