Bug#241034: xlibs: Meta key not working in emacs with XkbOptions altwin:left_meta_win
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:59:44 +0200
barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier) wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 02:51:22PM +0200, Felix Kuehling wrote:
> > Package: xlibs
> > Version: 4.3.0-7
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > The meta key stopped working after upgrading to XFree86 4.3. This is with
> > XkbOptions set to "altwin:left_meta_win, compose:menu". It used to work with
> > XFree86 4.2.x. The left windows-key was Meta.
> [...]
> > I made some experiments with xev, once with altwin:left_meta_win,compose:menu,
> > once without it. It's funny that Alt_L+X produces the same result in both
> > cases, but with the XkbOptions emacs doesn't recognize Alt_L+X. :-/
>
> Are these keys working right in xterm? If yes, this is most likely an
> emacs problem, it looks similar to
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165814&msg=7
Hmm. It does work in xterm. In gnome-terminal I have to use Alt_L as
Meta-key though.
If this is a bug in Emacs then I wonder why the Meta-key works correctly
with altwin:meta_win but fails with altwin:left_meta_win. How is the
left Windows key handled differently between the two options? Should
there be any difference? If not then I'd suspect that it's rather a
problem in X.
And it's not a problem with the Xserver itself, because the problem also
occurs with a self-built server from the DRI project that I was using
before the XFree86 upgrade without problems.
>
> Denis
Felix
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