[Gllug] Meta keys

[Kim Hawtin]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:43:36PM +0000, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> >And what does X use em for?
> Whatever you want! In fvwm2, for example, you can map actions to
> key combinations. Mine has shift-meta-x to start up a new rxvt,
> shift-meta-l to lock the screen, and shift-meta-m to mute the
> audio I'm listening to. Handy for when someone comes round to
> your desk to talk to you.
 
thats cool.

> X has a number of arbitrary moidifers, of which Meta is just one.
> Others include Shift, Control, Alt, Super and Hyper. By convention,
> certain key combinations do certain things, but all are available
> to any program that wants to use them. fvwm2 lets you use any
> combination of Shift, Control and Meta. Other programs may let you
> use the other modifiers in various ways.

shift, ctl and alt i know, but,
wtf is "Super" and "Hyper", and why ... how the ... 

...

why?

yours,

kim
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