From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: strange behaviour: Emacs ignoring one key on my keyboard, Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:29:53 +0100 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <87fsmfivq6.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33174"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:w0S+K2Tf4z6wQ1YduPlH/lXJTn0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 14 16:31:04 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1nf0Ux-0008VL-Tz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:31:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40740 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nf0Uw-000283-Sc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48376) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nf0U0-000269-Le for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:44376) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nf0Ty-0003cb-I2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nf0Tu-0006mD-Qx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:29:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136911 Archived-At: On Thursday, 14 Apr 2022 at 14:17, emacsq via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > Did you try bisecting the problem by going back to previous emacs git > versions to identify when the problem occurs? No, I did not as I have no idea when this started happening (it's a key that I did not use for a long time). I have, however, sort of figured out what is happening: the Windows key acts as "super" in Emacs and it seems to do so no matter what I tell the system via xmodmap. So, if I type "C-h c WINDOWSKEY d", I do get "s-d undefined" so the key is being interpreted, just not as what xev and other tools say it is (i.e. as F20, as I defined it using xmodmap). So, somehow, maybe, Emacs is interpreting the *keycode* instead of the *keysym*? Maybe something in the X11 parts of the Emacs code. Somewhere to look, in any case, so I'm still investigating. I have no need for a "super" key as I try to avoid all forms of key chording as much as I can due to RSI issues. Thank you, eric -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.3