From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cecilio Pardo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: accidentally changing keyboard layout Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:48:03 +0100 Message-ID: <86fws1cucc.fsf@imayhem.com> References: <30419738-d7bb-4161-a38b-256b2d25f937@h19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296990101 12076 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2011 11:01:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 11:01:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: ernest Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 06 12:01:37 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pm2N0-0006gK-GY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:01:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pm2Mr-0006kV-DL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:01:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53736 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pm2MA-0006ix-FB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:00:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pm2Ls-0006tj-DY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:00:21 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpout.e.telefonica.net ([213.4.134.165]:63051 helo=ze3smtpout020.e.telefonica.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pm2Ls-0006sU-5d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:00:20 -0500 Original-Received: from ze3smtpin010.e.telefonica.net ([10.20.241.140]) by ze3smtpout020.e.telefonica.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 6 Feb 2011 11:48:04 +0100 Original-Received: from there ([83.59.201.216]) by ze3smtpin010.e.telefonica.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 6 Feb 2011 11:48:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <30419738-d7bb-4161-a38b-256b2d25f937@h19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (ernest's message of "Fri, 4 Feb 2011 06:25:31 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2011 10:48:04.0705 (UTC) FILETIME=[552ADD10:01CBC5EB] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1+ X-Received-From: 213.4.134.165 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78985 Archived-At: You are probably pressing and releasing shift+alt, which switches keyboard language. Do that again to switch back. You can disable this key combination in windows' control panel. > Hi, > Recently, I've been compelled to use the Windows (XP) operating > system. > The problem I have is that every now and then I change emacs's > keyboard > layout by accident. Usually it switches to US layout, some times to > other > layouts. It must be some combination of keys, I still haven't figured > out which ones. Once it's changed I cannot fix it or I don't know how > to fix it. > I select the default keyboard layout or the Spanish layout on the > menu, but > nothing happens. I have to restart emacs every time! > Any idea how I can avoid this? This is specific to emacs, other > programs > are not affected. I also use emacs on GNU/Linux and never had this > problem. Cheers. > -- > Ernest > -- Cecilio Pardo.