Hi,
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA <leandro.dutra@camara.gov.br> (19/01/2011):
> Gnome does say I have a 104 keys keyboard with the USA International
> (with dead keys) layout. It seems to know nothing of the options.
looks like the infamous gdm3 bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/590534
> Here is a Emacs shell log. Unconfigured keyboard, after booting and
> logging in, Alt key gives Meta and logo key gives Super in GNU Emacs
> 23:
>
> leandro@corel-276906-deb:~$ setxkbmap -print
> xkb_keymap {
> xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
> xkb_types { include "complete" };
> xkb_compat { include "complete" };
> xkb_symbols { include "pc+us(intl)+inet(evdev)" };
> xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
See? No options at all.
> Until this point, no compose or non-break spaces. Then, I did my
> setxkbmap to set these options. This works.
Which seems to confirm my feeling.
You may want to run:
X :42 & sleep 5 ; DISPLAY=:42 xterm
and try setxkbmap -print there to confirm.
> Sawfish does recognise Alt and Meta as expected now, but Emacs
> behaves strangely. It interprets Alt as Meta, and Meta as Super.
> As it is, I cannot even A- or M-Tab out of Emacs. At this point, if
> I switch to a virtual console and back again, I get back to square
> one, setxkbmap for compose and nbsp, and get something functional,
> but not what I wanted and am used to.
Not sure about this point. Somebody should check the Emacs FAQ, I
think there's some entry about this kind of things.
KiBi.
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