From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, raman@google.com
Subject: Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';'
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838ruc458z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871r04zqbv.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:49:56 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:49:56 +0800
>
> > I've now lost keys such as C-;, C-, etc under X -- they just produce
> > the key minus the modifier bit, So c-; just generates ";". Bug or
> > intentional?
>
> People running X should not use the PGTK port. The only use it has is
> to support Wayland and Broadway.
>
> And it's not intentional. Rather, it's a bug in the various GTK input
> modules out there that isn't likely to ever be fixed. Just treat it as
> a limitation of the PGTK port and don't use it unless you have to.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > Removing --with-pgtk from the config options and rebuilding got back
> > C-; and friends.
>
> Indeed, which is one of the reasons why people who don't have a specific
> reason to use the PGTK port (such as Wayland) should not use it.
Should this be in NEWS (and perhaps also in PROBLEMS)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-15 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-15 3:43 with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';' T.V Raman
2022-02-15 4:49 ` Po Lu
2022-02-15 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-02-15 13:45 ` Po Lu
2022-02-15 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-15 14:03 ` Po Lu
2022-02-15 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-16 0:03 ` Tim Cross
2022-02-16 0:48 ` Po Lu
2022-02-15 23:50 ` Tim Cross
2022-02-16 3:16 ` T.V Raman
2022-02-16 6:19 ` Tim Cross
2022-02-16 7:22 ` Po Lu
2022-02-16 13:11 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-16 13:37 ` Po Lu
2022-02-16 13:46 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-16 14:01 ` Po Lu
2022-02-16 17:48 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-17 0:43 ` Po Lu
2022-02-17 5:40 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-17 15:02 ` T.V Raman
2022-02-17 17:38 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-17 19:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-17 19:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-17 20:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-17 20:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-17 20:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-18 0:44 ` Po Lu
2022-02-18 3:13 ` T.V Raman
2022-02-18 3:25 ` Po Lu
2022-02-18 18:13 ` T.V Raman
2022-02-19 1:02 ` Po Lu
2022-02-19 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-19 8:15 ` Po Lu
2022-02-19 15:23 ` T.V Raman
2022-02-20 1:01 ` Po Lu
2022-02-20 18:06 ` T.V Raman
2022-02-21 15:46 ` T.V Raman
2022-02-22 1:00 ` Po Lu
2022-02-18 0:42 ` Po Lu
2022-02-15 13:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-02-15 13:48 ` Po Lu
2022-02-15 6:36 ` tomas
2022-02-15 11:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-02-15 12:33 ` tomas
2022-02-16 0:13 ` Tim Cross
2022-02-15 13:08 ` Modifier keys on ttys (was: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';') Stefan Monnier
2022-02-15 13:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-02-15 14:19 ` Modifier keys on ttys Stefan Monnier
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