From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Maurizio Tomasi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Modifier keys not recognized in Emacs 23.0.0NS-9.0rc2 [Ubuntu Linux 7.10 using GNUstep] Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:57:32 +0100 Message-ID: <3578a4218726e09f9bbb253e82e45379@tomasi-laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Pantomime 1.2.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194019184 28997 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2007 15:59:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:59:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 02 16:59:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Inyvr-0002LH-3M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:59:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Inyvh-0000M0-82 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Inx2E-00072K-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Inx2B-0006zy-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Inx2A-0006zv-W6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Inx2A-0004bM-FQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166] helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Inx2A-0003JI-2m for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Inx26-0004Zr-8h for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: from joe.tiscali.it ([213.205.33.54]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Inx25-0004RP-Ol for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:57:58 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (84.221.64.234) by joe.tiscali.it (7.3.122) id 471F461B001510B5 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:57:32 +0100 User-Agent: GNUMail (Version 1.2.0) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:59:26 -0400 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:82363 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:20224 Archived-At: I have compiled Emacs.app 23.0.0 (9.0rc2) under GNUstep (Ubuntu Linux 7.10), and have some problems in getting my modifier keys working properly. Both problems do not occur with the emacs version (22.1.1) packaged with Ubuntu (compiled with the Gtk libraries, no GNUstep support). In this mail, I will refer to GNUstep Email as "Email.app". 1. THE ALT KEY When I press "Alt+", Emacs.app does not detect the Alt key and inserts the plain key in the buffer (e.g. Alt-X inserts "X"). Pressing "C-h c" and then "Alt+" shows that only has indeed been detected. The Alt key seems not to work at all under Emacs. (Note that I configured GNUstep to use my "Windows" key as the command key, so there should be no conflict with GNUstep). Note that I am able to overcome this problem by pressing "ESC ". 2. THE ALTGR KEY My italian keyboard layout produces {} using key combinations with Shift+AltGr, e.g. to produce "}" I press Shift+AltGr+*. This is Ubuntu's default for italian keyboards, and it is a common setting among other Linux distributions as well. These keys work fine under X and GNUstep applications (such as Terminal.app and GNUMail), but under Emacs.app pressing Shift+AltGr+* produces a plain "*" instead of "}". It is worth to note that to produce "]" I have to press AltGr+*, and this works perfectly even under Emacs.app! Fortunately, there is an alternative key sequence that produces {}, namely AltGr+7 and AltGr+0, and this works even under Emacs (because it does not use a Shift+AltGr sequence). MY CONFIGURATION I am running GNUstep under Linux Ubuntu 7.10 on a i386 laptop (Acer Aspire 1694Wlmi), and have set the command key to the "Windows key" of my keyboard. Here is the output of "defaults read | grep GSFirst": NSGlobalDomain GSFirstAlternateKey Alt_R NSGlobalDomain GSFirstCommandKey Super_L NSGlobalDomain GSFirstControlKey Control_L I have downloaded the Emacs.app source package and compiled it using the "nextstep/compile" script. All the GNUstep packages were installed using Ubuntu packages, including the development libraries: gnustep-base-common (1.13.0-7) gnustep-base-runtime (1.13.0-7) libaddresses-dev (0.4.6-8) libaddresses0 (0.4.6-8) libaddressview-dev (0.4.6-8) libaddressview0 (0.4.6-8) libgnustep-base-dev (1.13.0-7) libgnustep-base1.13 (1.13.0-7) libgnustep-base1.13-dbg (1.13.0-7) libgnustep-gui-dev (0.11.0-2) libgnustep-gui0.11 (0.11.0-2) libgnustep-gui0.11-dbg (0.11.0-2) libpantomime1.2 (1.2.0~pre2.dfsg-2) libpantomime1.2-dev (1.2.0~pre2.dfsg-2) libpopplerkit-dev (0.0.20051227svn-4ubuntu1) libpopplerkit0 (0.0.20051227svn-4ubuntu1) librenaissance0 (0.8.0-10) librenaissance0-dev (0.8.0-10) The information about Emacs.app (compiled from sources) are: GNU Emacs 23.0.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, *Step 9.0-rc2) of 2007-11-02 on tomasi-laptop configured using `configure '--with-ns' '--without-x' '--prefix=' '--exec-prefix=/home/tomasi/emacs-23.0.0_NS-9.0rc2/nextstep/build/Emacs.app' '--libexecdir=/home/tomasi/emacs-23.0.0_NS-9.0rc2/nextstep/build/Emacs.app/libexec' '--with-pop' '--enable-font-backend' '--without-freetype' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Best regards, Maurizio Tomasi.