Hi,
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (19/01/2011):
> 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.
can you confirm I got it right, please?
> > 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.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MetaKeyProblems might help.
KiBi.
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