Henkan_Mod (<henkan>) undefined in Emacs (AltGr elsewhere in X)

Henkan_Mod (<henkan>) undefined in Emacs (AltGr elsewhere in X)

[Bastien]

Dear all,

I have a thinkpad X61 with a Japanese keyboard.  

I use this in .xmodmaprc to set the Henkan key to AltGr:

  add mod5 = Henkan_Mode

This works in terminal and other X applications, but it 
doesn't work in GNU Emacs: pressing the Henkan key says
"<henkan> is undefined".

Any hint on how to fix this (very annoying) problem?

As a workaround, can I use global-set-key to remap the
<henkan> key to the AltGr key?

Thanks a lot in advance,

I'm using latest ArchLinux and GNU Emacs 24.0.50.2 
(i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.1) of 2011-03-16.

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Henkan_Mod (<henkan>) undefined in Emacs (AltGr elsewhere in X)

[Davis Herring]

> I use this in .xmodmaprc to set the Henkan key to AltGr:
> 
>   add mod5 = Henkan_Mode
> 
> This works in terminal and other X applications, but it 
> doesn't work in GNU Emacs: pressing the Henkan key says
> "<henkan> is undefined".
> 
> Any hint on how to fix this (very annoying) problem?

AltGr is known as Mode_switch to X.  You need to do

keysym Henkan_Mode = Mode_switch

and then assign that to a modifier.

Davis

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Re: Henkan_Mod (<henkan>) undefined in Emacs (AltGr elsewhere in X)

[Bastien]

Hi David,

Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov> writes:

>> Any hint on how to fix this (very annoying) problem?
>
> AltGr is known as Mode_switch to X.  You need to do
>
> keysym Henkan_Mode = Mode_switch
>
> and then assign that to a modifier.

Thanks.  But this doesn't solve my problem.  To be clear: 
rebinding Mod5 to Henkan_Mode with this line in my .xmodmap

  add Mod5 = Henkan_Mode

do works everywhere *but* in Emacs.  Besides, 

  keysym Henkan_Mode = Mode_switch 

triggers an error here.

Thanks for any further help,

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Henkan_Mod (<henkan>) undefined in Emacs (AltGr elsewhere in X)

[Daiki Ueno]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

>   keysym Henkan_Mode = Mode_switch 
>
> triggers an error here.

Try using ISO_Level3_Shift instead of Mode_switch:

xmodmap -e "keysym Henkan_Mode = ISO_Level3_Shift Henkan_Mode"

then I can input "¶" with Henkan+r on Emacs (under French XKB layout).

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

Re: Henkan_Mod (<henkan>) undefined in Emacs (AltGr elsewhere in X)

[Bastien]

Hi Daiki,

Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org> writes:

> Try using ISO_Level3_Shift instead of Mode_switch:
>
> xmodmap -e "keysym Henkan_Mode = ISO_Level3_Shift Henkan_Mode"
>
> then I can input "¶" with Henkan+r on Emacs (under French XKB layout).

It does indeed solve my problem -- *thanks* a lot for this!

-- 
 Bastien