From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Pogonyshev Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: wish: right alt/meta to switch keyboard layout while pressed Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:45:11 +0200 Message-ID: <200511242145.11221.pogonyshev@gmx.net> References: <200511222150.54248.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <87zmnu9ddg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132861489 30118 80.91.229.2 (24 Nov 2005 19:44:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:44:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 24 20:44:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfMzj-0000Za-Aq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:42:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfMzi-0002Ym-Go for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EfMyg-0001H3-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:41:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EfMyd-0001AO-Rv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:41:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfMyd-00019C-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:41:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EfMyd-0005gM-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:41:51 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Nov 2005 19:41:49 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (EHLO [194.158.209.181]) [194.158.209.181] by mail.gmx.net (mp035) with SMTP; 24 Nov 2005 20:41:49 +0100 X-Authenticated: #16844820 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 In-Reply-To: <87zmnu9ddg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> Content-Disposition: inline X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46535 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > > As far as I can tell, Emacs currently just ignores the right Alt. > > From your description you seem to say that your right Alt key is already > configured for other apps to do some kind of keyboard switch. So it seems > that it's an X11 feature, in which case the problem may simply be a bug in > Emacs which doesn't handle this feature correctly. Emacs has no way of handling it correctly out-of-the-box, since it uses internal input methods, which are a completely separate from `xkb'. > Can you check with `xev' to see what events your right Alt key generates? It shows up as `Super_R', while the left Alt is `Alt_L'. Paul