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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: strange behaviour: Emacs ignoring one key on my keyboard,
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:21:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnfrhbyw.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lew74rzk.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:14:23 +0200")

On Thursday, 14 Apr 2022 at 17:14, Robert Pluim wrote:
> Does 'xmodmap' show that you have a modifier mapped to that key? I
> think emacs recently started trying to be smarter about that.

Yes, it does!  Hadn't thought of that.  And, yes, doing

xmodmap -e 'clear Mod4'

fixes the problem!

Thank you,
eric

-- 
Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.3



      reply	other threads:[~2022-04-14 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-14 14:17 strange behaviour: Emacs ignoring one key on my keyboard, emacsq via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-04-14 14:29 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-04-14 15:14   ` Robert Pluim
2022-04-14 16:21     ` Eric S Fraga [this message]

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