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Wayne Werner
Asked: 2011-03-08 05:27:40 +0800 CST

Is it possible to rebind Ctrl+Alt to the Meta key?

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I'm using the awesome window manager, and it's, well, awesome.

However, I have a slight issue - I'm using an IBM Model M keyboard, which lacks the Meta key.

This is kind of a problem, as awesome relies on it for basically every action you can make.

I do tend to use my Ctrl and Alt keys quite often, so I'm not really able to remap those - however what I would like to be able to do is remap Ctrl+Alt to fire a meta event. Is this possible? I've toyed around with xkeycaps and done some searches on "rebind ctrl+alt" but most of the results give me either swapping the two keys or something else. (Also, I use caps-lock as an additional control, or I would just map that one.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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  1. Best Answer

    It doesn't appear to be possible, you'll have to find some other key that you use less often.

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