From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PGTK-related misconceptions Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 09:24:14 -0700 Message-ID: <87ilraz55d.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87lew7qdtj.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7534"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:HkgQ0ZA0cuxxMTLPv6I+Nouh6Sw= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 15 18:26:01 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nfOll-0001pr-Gw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2022 18:26:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46530 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nfOlk-0008Vs-4C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nfOkB-0007VE-Gw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:24:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:57272) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nfOk9-0005zN-WA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:24:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nfOk6-000AK8-Q7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2022 18:24:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:288449 Archived-At: Po Lu writes: > Morgan Smith writes: > >> I'd like to report that my super key stopped registering. I suspected >> commit 1404e16975 caused it so I did a quick `git revert 1404e16975` >> ontop of 807682de1e and that fixed it. > > Crystal ball says you are using X Windows, and have to put > > remove mod4 = Hyper_L > > in your ~/.Xmodmap file, because GTK doesn't try as hard as regular X11 > Emacs to work around the common kind of virtual modifier > misconfiguration. > > People using X should _never_ use PGTK. The regular X build does a much > better job at supporting that than PGTK ever will. Hey, thanks for this! I'd set --with-pgtk on my X11 machine ages ago, not even knowing why, and reconfiguring without that flag solved my problems with "C-;" being received as plain ";" (and some other funky key misreadings). This is why we don't copy-n-paste config! Thanks again, Eric