Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch)

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:43:23PM +0200, Jan D. wrote:
> >>I am testing the patch and something like it will be checked in.  But
> >>it would be nicer if Emacs could determine that Hyper and Super
> >>is bound to fake keys and just ignore them.  I'm currently using XKB
> >>to get geometry info to determine that, but I wonder if there is a
> >>better way.  The reason I want this is that with the proposed patch
> >>the logo key becomes Super on my system, which is not really helpful
> >>either.
> >
> >Can you please tell me what your configuration is?  I am quite
> >surprised that it does not work as expected, doesn't xev also report
> >that your logo key is Super_{L,R}?
> 
> It was a Solaris machine.  There was no xev on it.  It may be a bad
> configuration anyway, it was not my machine.

It reminds me something I forgot to mention.  My initial intention was
to swap loops on col and code_col in order to first look for a modifier
symbol at level 0 for all keys from mods->modifiermap, then level 1,
etc.  This seems very logical, and I thought that it was needed to have
logo keys bound to Hyper, since this binding is declared after fake keys.
But my tests with XFree86 showed that this patch works without swapping
loops, so I preferred keeping it minimal.  For other X servers, swapping
these loops may be necessary.
Just a thought in case you receive future reports telling that some X
configurations do still not work with this patch applied.
Thanks for taking care.

Denis