Meta Key

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/1/18 Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>:
> On Sunday 18 January 2009, Tycho Andersen wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > As default meta is the Win key on a normal PC keyboard so there must
>> > be some settings you changed or you have a strange keyboard. Have you
>> > checked your xorg.conf?
>>
>> Here's the relevant lines (this was all auto-generated by nvidia-xconfig):
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>>     # generated from default
>>     Identifier     "Keyboard0"
>>     Driver         "kbd"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Maybe I'm not using the right keyboard driver? I thought I selected
>> 104 keys during the install.
>>
>> Tycho
>
>
> You might want to go to a console window (not X) and issue:
>
> dpkg-reconfigure  xserver-xorg
>
> This will run you through a series of questions on how you want the X-server
> configured and included in those questions are a bunch about extra key
> settings.
>
> It will ask you about some settings files that are contained <it will tell you
> where>  so you might want to move to another console session   alt-F<key>  to
> look in the directories mentioned.

His ALT key don't work it is mapped as Meta for some reason but my
guess it is only in X so rebooting in safe mode and running that will
work.

/ Jonas