From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: wish: right alt/meta to switch keyboard layout while pressed Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:18:54 -0500 Message-ID: <87zmnu9ddg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <200511222150.54248.pogonyshev@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132855037 11769 80.91.229.2 (24 Nov 2005 17:57:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:57:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 24 18:57:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfLJX-00081b-6E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:55:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfLJW-0005zn-M2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:55:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EfKkN-0007uw-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:18:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EfKkL-0007tJ-51 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:18:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfKkK-0007t6-MK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:18:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.93] (helo=tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EfKkK-0003v0-Gy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:18:56 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.33.38]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20051124171854.HPFF16985.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:18:54 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 48CF4D7357; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:18:54 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Paul Pogonyshev In-Reply-To: <200511222150.54248.pogonyshev@gmx.net> (Paul Pogonyshev's message of "Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:50:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [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:46524 Archived-At: > 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. Can you check with `xev' to see what events your right Alt key generates? Stefan