From: Tom Hageman <trh@xs4all.nl>
To: 1993@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1993: 23.0.60; Emacs.app has only transparent window background
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:25:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904192225.AAA28110@basil.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In article <mailman.4741.1239059038.31690.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, Jason
Rumney wrote:
> Adrian Robert wrote:
> > Do W32 users face this same issue? That is, does 'alt' play the
> > same role on their non-US keyboards as it does on the Mac ones?
> > Can we follow Emacs on W32 in that case?
>
> AltGr is distinct from Alt on Windows, so non-US users just lose one
> of the meta keys on their keyboard. There are some users who prefer
> to use Alt to access the menus though, and use the windows keys for
> meta. Currently this requires a patched version of Emacs to work
> properly, we have papers from the author, we are just waiting for
> the author to clean up the patch so we can install it, for 23.2 now.
Naive suggestion mabe, but as most (all?) Macs also have left- and right-
Alt keys, can't one be used as meta and the other kept as alt?
Regards,
Tom.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-19 22:25 Tom Hageman [this message]
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2009-03-16 21:22 bug#1993: 23.0.60; Emacs.app has only transparent window background David Reitter
2009-03-17 11:56 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-03-28 19:03 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-03-29 0:05 ` David Reitter
2009-03-29 0:20 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-03-28 19:07 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-03-29 0:01 ` David Reitter
2009-03-28 19:11 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-03-29 0:02 ` David Reitter
2009-03-28 19:54 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-03-28 23:26 ` David Reitter
2009-03-29 0:09 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-03-29 0:14 ` David Reitter
2009-03-29 0:24 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-04-04 6:26 ` Adrian Robert
2009-04-04 16:00 ` David Reitter
2009-04-06 4:25 ` Adrian Robert
2009-04-06 14:35 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-04-06 17:42 ` David Reitter
2009-04-06 22:53 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-22 18:54 Peter Dyballa
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