Run alsamixer in advanced multi-term terminal in GNU Emacs

Other GNU tips

You can run an advanced terminal in Emacs, surpassing its inbuilt `term', which for instance leaves a running instance of bash behind when closed with C-x k and suffers from other problems.

Multi-Term doesn't have any of these shortcomings, and you can run for instance alsamixer in it within Emacs comfortably.

To install multi-term:

Download multi-term.el from the above page.

Add the following to your ~/.emacs:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/multi-term") (require 'multi-term) (setq multi-term-program "/bin/bash") (setq term-unbind-key-list '("C-z" "C-x" "C-c" "C-h" "C-y"))

The last line limits the unbound keys, as multi-term by default also includes ESC, and then you cannot exit out of alsamixer, if it's not passed to the terminal by Emacs.

Run multi-term with M-x multi-term

Other Nokia N900 tips

To use a hardware dvorak keyboard on the Nokia N900, follow the following guide, as xmodmap doesn't work on the device:

To remap to Dvorak keyboard

To remap to a standard US keyboard, including the Escape key and keys necessary to use GNU Emacs on Nokia N900:

$ wget http://sumoudou.org/n900/rx-51.qole

# cp /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-51 /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-51.orig # cp rx-51.qole /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_nvdr/rx-51 # setxkbmap

Now your keyboard is remapped:

Escape is Fn+Left Tab is Fn+Right

For other keys, experiment.