[Gllug] Remapping Meta Keys

[Mike Brodbelt]

Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Perhaps a slightly obscure question, but the talents and interests of
> this list are  many and diverse...
> 
> I am using ion3 as my window manager, and emacs as my work
> environment.  This causes a clash as the left alt key is used for both
> emacs and ion3.
> 
> I want to set the right alt key to function as the meta key in ion3.

I've got no knowledge of ion3 at all, but it seems to me as though 
you're going to have trouble here (assuming you're using emacs from 
within ion3). You can remap keys with xmodmap, but that changes the X 
events generated by the keypress, so will affect what all applications 
running under X see - that won't help you here. You can also tell your 
window manager to bind keys to actions, but it has to do this either by 
logic internal to the WM, or by using xmodmap (or equivalent API calls). 
I can't see how you can have a key mapped in ion3, but present different 
semantics to an application running under the WM. Unless ion3 
specifically provides support for remapping keys in a context sensitive 
manner, according to which app has the focus, I don't see how it'll work 
for you.

Mike
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