Debug altwin:meta_win

[Leandro DUTRA <leandro.gfc.dutra@gmail.com>]

Hello!

       I just came back from a long exile at uncle Gates’ shadowlands.

       One thing I always used until one year and a half ago did not
work in a Squeeze installation, from before the release candidate
these days.  I always used XkbOptions altwin:meta_win, so I could have
the logo (Windows) key as Meta in GNU Emacs and for navigating
Sawfish, leaving Alt for other applications and for user-defined Emacs
keybindings.

       This time around, an old dream was fulfilled: console-setup now
configures both the console and X11 keyboard configurations.  Superb.
But this configuration did not work in X11, forcing me to use
setxkbmap.  Other XkbOptions also failed to work, such as
compose:rwin, nbsp:level3n.

       Worse still, while setxkbmap does work for compose and nbsp, it
really messed with altwin:meta_win.  The logo keys do behave as Meta,
but Alt continues generating Meta.  Before someone asks, the same
holds for compose:menu and for altwin:left_meta_win, even if I run
setup_con or even reboot.

       As my Xkb knowledge is totally superficial, and I know nothing
of console-setup, I ask:

* Is there a good tutorial or manual on Xkb and on console-setup, and
on their interaction?

* Anyway, how to best debug the issue, perhaps even generating a bug
report against either console-setup or some X11 package, yet
undetermined?

Thanks in advance!



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