From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
51001@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51001: 28.0.50; [feature/pgtk] Wrong modifier used as meta with pgtk
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 01:41:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=2=kTwCCGQ4DG3kUosUkjzcUOx_FU6UcNP+kZJ7uUssg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec899ee6-c164-73d5-cf87-bf7ecabaf25f@compton.nu> (Tom Hughes's message of "Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:32:29 +0100")
tags 51001 - moreinfo
tags 51001 + notabug
thanks
Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu> writes:
> On 13/09/2022 03:32, Po Lu wrote:
>> Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu> writes:
>>
>>> This still seems to happen on master, yes.
>> The Wayland compositor does not respect modifier mappings set in the
>> Xwayland server. GTK 3 has lost the concept of a separate "Meta"
>> modifier, so there is no way to achieve what you want on PGTK.
>> And probably on Wayland in general, I think.
>
> So I think I have found a way to get what I want, because I don't
> actually care about a meta key, but I use A-letter for all my main
> short cuts. Fortunately this works:
>
> (setq x-meta-keysym 'alt)
>
> I did try changing my A-letter shortcuts to M-letter but that winds
> up breaking ESC x as M-x which is the one thing I do use.
Is it worth documenting this trick somewhere? Po Lu, what do you think?
Other than that, I guess this is not a bug in Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-03 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-04 7:51 bug#51001: 28.0.50; [feature/pgtk] Wrong modifier used as meta with pgtk Tom Hughes via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-12 10:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-12 16:27 ` Tom Hughes via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-13 2:32 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-13 16:32 ` Tom Hughes via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-03 8:41 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2023-09-03 9:06 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-03 9:46 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-12-22 14:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-12-24 3:13 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-25 18:25 ` Stefan Kangas
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