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<description>&lt;p&gt;My old iBook is still being used! I installed Ubuntu on it a while ago. Today I thought that it was kind-of sluggish and I decided to switch from the default window manager and desktop environment to something leaner. I remember a long time ago I had been using &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/SlackWare"&gt;SlackWare&lt;/a&gt; and had switched from KDE to Xfce. Time to try it again!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Right now I sort-of miss the Exposé functionality. I think I just need to find a different solution or I might go back to Gnome because of the resources this will need.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My menu-bar background is black. Yuck, that&amp;#x2019;s ugly. Must find a better theme. I think I&amp;#x2019;m running into two things conflicting, here. By using Xfce 4 Settings Manager &amp;#x2192; Appearance I was able to switch from Albatross to Clearlooks, I fixed the menu-bar. Previously, I had only used the Window Manager setting to switch from Default style to Agua style. Solved, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find that my dead keys are only working partially. The obvious stuff like the circumflex (^ + e = ê) and the umlaut (¨ + o = ö) work, but I&amp;#x2019;ve grown used to Alt+2 resulting in “ and Alt+Shift+2 resulting in ” &amp;#x2013; something about my keymap is broken! It turns out that I want my Option key to be used as Alt, with Emacs treating Alt as Meta. The Alt key, however, should be used as whatever it&amp;#x2019;s called to access the extra stuff on a key (again, I&amp;#x2019;ll have to look up the names). Gah! Keyboard Layouts Settings is not helping.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Half the problem is solved by the following &amp;#x2013; now the Option key acts as alt/meta.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    ! Option key is alt/meta
    remove mod4 = Super_L
    add mod1 = Super_L&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using &amp;#x201c;keycode 64 = Mode_switch&amp;#x201d; doesn&amp;#x2019;t change the Alt key to give me access to the third and fourth keysym. What&amp;#x2019;s wrong? Time to reread my old blog posts&amp;#x2026; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-11-30_Keyboard_Remapping"&gt;2009-11-30 Keyboard Remapping&lt;/a&gt;. Truly, I feel like I&amp;#x2019;m giving advice to my future self. Ah, there it is!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    ! Alt key switches levels
    remove mod1 = Alt_L
    keycode 64 = ISO_Level3_Shift&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;And it works! Now to make this permanent&amp;#x2026; save the lines in a file called /.Xmodmap and they&amp;#x2019;ll get run when you log in. Problem solved!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Also remember the changes I made to my system: &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-12-19_Waiting_For_Processes"&gt;2009-12-19 Waiting For Processes&lt;/a&gt;…)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;: I&amp;#x2019;m currently using the following:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    keycode 133 = Meta_L
    keycode 64 = ISO_Level3_Shift
    remove mod1 = ISO_Level3_Shift
    keycode 65 = space space&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;I ended up typing a lot of Shift+Space = non-breaking space.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Ubuntu"&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Ubuntu"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Xfce"&gt;Xfce&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Xfce"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=iBook"&gt;iBook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:iBook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:32:08 GMT</pubDate>
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