ALT key in Mac OS X 10.6 X11

I am using slickedit on Mac OS 10.6 and the ALT key is not passing through to slickedit... it looks like the X11 system is controlling it.  Does anyone know how to make the ALT key just go directly to slickedit?
Thx,
M_

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