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"Mats" == Mats Lofdahl writes:

 Mats> M-tab (ALT-TAB, actually) lowers my emacs window and puts focus
 Mats> on another window.  If that is the usual response from
 Mats> Motif/X-windows, M-tab should be avoided in emacs.

 Mats> If it is not, I'd like some advice on how to make my setup
 Mats> behave better.  (I'm running the Common Desctop Environment.)

Under X, it is not necessary to map the ALT key to Meta. If your
keyboard has some extra keys (like e.g. M$ window keys), you can map
those keys to Meta. So, ALT and Meta will be different keys (and Emacs
understands both of them as different keys). This is very convenient.

	Best regards, -- Vladimir.