From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Chen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Alt key unavailable in GTK Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 02:54:52 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87hdubh213.fsf@zamazal.org> Reply-To: quarl+dated+1085478659.0c69b1@nospam.quarl.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085047026 1632 80.91.224.253 (20 May 2004 09:57:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 09:57:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 20 11:56:57 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQkIL-0004Im-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 11:56:57 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQkIL-0001bR-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 11:56:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQkHP-0007Rf-TV for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 20 May 2004 05:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQkGv-0007RK-9u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2004 05:55:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQkGO-0007KV-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2004 05:55:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQkGO-0007KP-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2004 05:54:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQkGN-00045r-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 11:54:55 +0200 Original-Received: from hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu ([128.32.47.228]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 11:54:55 +0200 Original-Received: from quarl by hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 11:54:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu X-Quack-Archive: 1 Gmane-From: 1 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:V6PxJUAc9VpSSUH7rkmQDafLvDY= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23771 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23771 It might be the GTK library is using some GTK setting. What does 'xmodmap -p' show and what does 'xev' show when you press alt/ meta? >>>>> "Milan" == Milan Zamazal writes: Milan> Milan> When the current Emacs CVS snapshot is built using GTK Milan> and I press the Alt key, it behaves exactly the same Milan> way as if the Meta key was actually pressed. I Milan> couldn't find a way to distinguish between the two keys Milan> nor could find any information about the problem in Milan> documentation. When the same snapshot is compiled with Milan> Athena, the Meta and Alt keys work fine, as expected. Milan> Milan> So I think it is a bug. Milan> -- Karl 2004-05-20 02:50