Fedora 16 XFCE; emacs ALT key

[dayalsoap]

Hi,
On fedora 16 xfce, 64-bit, the alt key no longer works as it's supposed to for emacs (Meta key). I have to use escape instead. Any idea what's happened and how I should fix it?

[Adunaic]

Is this in the XFCE spin? I suspect that they have remapped the mod keys. You could try searching for how to map them, but I have no idea I am afraid.

[dayalsoap]

Yes, it's in the XFCE spin. I will try to figure out how to do what you've suggested.

If anyone has any tips on how to get started, I'm all ears.. or eyes.

Thanks again!

---------- Post added 6th December 2011 at 01:09 AM ---------- Previous post was 5th December 2011 at 08:03 PM ----------

I've looked for ways to remmap the modkeys but I haven't found anything useful.... Any ideas, anyone?

[dayalsoap]

Okay, so I've narrowed down the problem.. this ONLY happens when I'm sshed into another server (any server). When I use the local graphical emacs, the ALT key functions as expected.

---------- Post added 7th December 2011 at 02:23 AM ---------- Previous post was 6th December 2011 at 03:43 PM ----------

These solutions here fixed the problem:

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626792#c20>

...

"For testing purposes, I've build a vte package with this patch applied, see
http://thm.fedorapeople.org/vte/
"