From: Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com>
To: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: alt key on Fedora not working
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:47:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMJ-YiQO6HfpL1Swv3bXU0OxYoj=QAi-PtrjAKTraOhL6XYFRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMXnza0UxMof3rM3G7HT-rfJV=PDTQhzjze1yhuXDqtenu495Q@mail.gmail.com>
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I see. this seems to be the problem I'm having, and the last post mentions
XFCE.
It seems that I just have to wait for a fix to be released?
Jai
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:39 PM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello Jai,
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 16:18, Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I should have been more clear: yes, I am using emacs -nw when ssh-ed
> into
> > the servers.
> >
> > However, on my local machine, there is a graphical emacs (23.2.1) and
> when I
> > do alt-x, it works as expected (M-x)
> >
> > So the problem only happens over ssh connections
> >
>
> As I said, its a vte bug. Look at the bugzilla link I provided.
>
> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:06 AM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Are you using emacs in the terminal (emacs -nw)? There was a bug in
> >> vte which caused Alt keys to be neglected for all gtk based terminal
> >> emulators with the latest version of gtk. Several distros were
> >> affected (e.g. Debian). If my description matches your problem, see
> >> comment 20 on this bug report
> >> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626792>.
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Look at this link.
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-06 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-06 1:29 alt key on Fedora not working Jai Dayal
2011-12-06 7:06 ` suvayu ali
2011-12-06 15:18 ` Jai Dayal
2011-12-06 17:39 ` suvayu ali
2011-12-06 17:47 ` Jai Dayal [this message]
2011-12-06 17:50 ` suvayu ali
2011-12-06 18:03 ` Jai Dayal
2011-12-06 9:34 ` Peter Dyballa
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