From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';' Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:41:00 +0200 Message-ID: <838ruc458z.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871r04zqbv.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22123"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, raman@google.com To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 15 14:43:19 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nJy6x-0005XR-1h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:43:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39284 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJy6v-0001cE-Md for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:43:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60952) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJy4g-0006nW-LD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:40:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=55550 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJy4g-0007xG-7x; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:40:58 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=ZnlVBazTn2Zcmp6cbaQfxWBLoUY2UvdnUhVHlGcujD4=; b=GNKd4v/ZQeIB lPnYx7hqlgXwaGCi2jrgyHkV4lVhtxYw82qJc9ZJ+75IIMTbGJlceAhaN/OeM3I8zwzgIOHc7h+iA 0bi0uUOX/PB7B6yfbB2Y02LvsTsRGphLbarVQpM++az+WxNo8zII4lh2IlMj6MiWhJ2ec3/EnTS0g BkxFRhcAyionuF1DM6x1AirGrUfth6sgk5jnRsh83ih4TrGmz8yNtW7iyKo41c9SuMVD9nemgG7m9 +LL6I+kuynk7OUNlFUK2evddvvfEwjN67xlwOXmS+r24gTfTi8i68jXIZ8Wf/BHKTWGMGyHiu/I6L cH+pvF0s8iC8wVlDWJFahA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3023 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJy4f-0001sm-Nv; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:40:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <871r04zqbv.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:49:56 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:286325 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:49:56 +0800 > > > I've now lost keys such as C-;, C-, etc under X -- they just produce > > the key minus the modifier bit, So c-; just generates ";". Bug or > > intentional? > > People running X should not use the PGTK port. The only use it has is > to support Wayland and Broadway. > > And it's not intentional. Rather, it's a bug in the various GTK input > modules out there that isn't likely to ever be fixed. Just treat it as > a limitation of the PGTK port and don't use it unless you have to. > > Thanks. > > > Removing --with-pgtk from the config options and rebuilding got back > > C-; and friends. > > Indeed, which is one of the reasons why people who don't have a specific > reason to use the PGTK port (such as Wayland) should not use it. Should this be in NEWS (and perhaps also in PROBLEMS)?