Try the sawfish window manager. It's extensible and written in cl and is emacs buddy. Great keyboard control.
----- Reply message ----- From: "Tyler Smith" <tyler.smith@eku.edu> Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2011 3:49 pm Subject: Xmodmap struggles To: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
> Trying to change Alt key behavior > On a friends machine > $ xmodmap .Xmodmap > > works but on mine I get > > X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range > for operation) > Major opcode of failed request: 118 (X_SetModifierMapping) > Value in failed request: 0x17 > Serial number of failed request: 15 > Current serial number in output stream: 15
Try running xev on your machine. I suspect the keycodes are different on the two machines, and you're using the wrong ones for your keyboard.