How can I make an alternative keyboard key (e.g. the Windows key) act as the meta key in emacs?
I am looking for a solution internal to emacs, so using xmodmap is out of the question.
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You can remap keys per application (by having the window manager switch mappings on a window focus switch), but I don't know of a convenient way to do that. Xxkb does layout switching but I don't know how to configure it to move modifiers around.– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'Commented Apr 26, 2017 at 9:40
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The following elisp may help you out. Just add it to your config.
(setq x-meta-keysym 'super)
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Thanks! The line (setq x-super keysym 'meta) did the trick, but is not taking effect when running emacs in the terminal.– explawCommented Mar 26, 2017 at 23:33
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1@explaw Doing this in a terminal is completely different and may or may not be possible depending on which terminal emulator you use. You should ask a new question about this (since you mentioned xmodmap as an alternative here, your question was implicitly about X11). Commented Apr 26, 2017 at 9:38
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This was helpful; I did
(setq x-super-keysym 'meta)to make GUI emacs work for as I wanted in Ubuntu– haksayngCommented Aug 17, 2017 at 7:31