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Re: Meta key recognition
From: |
tyler |
Subject: |
Re: Meta key recognition |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:17:16 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Fab <wax.resources@gmail.com> writes:
>
> I use ubuntu and have several keyboard shortcuts defined. Now when I
> use emacs I would like to have these ubuntu shortcuts (using the Meta-
> Key) disabled. How can I approach this?
>
I don't think you can do this, at least not from within emacs. Anything
that the desktop environment recognizes as a keyboard shortcut will
never be passed on to any applications. I don't know if Gnome allows for
shortcuts that are conditional on which application has focus, but I
doubt it.
What I do (using Fluxbox) is reserve the 'windows' key for
window-manager shortcuts, so that the Alt and Ctrl keys are free for use
within Emacs. Except that I use Alt-tab to switch windows, so I can't
use Alt-tab for anything in Emacs. So far that hasn't been a problem.
Cheers,
Tyler
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