From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs not receiving C-M-right from keyboard Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:22:49 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87wsvl20ba.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187919636 17603 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2007 01:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:40:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 24 03:40:33 2007 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 4.50) id 1IOOA4-0001jL-BX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOOA3-0001Ib-NZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-06!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XN+hO6TjgwLNPATZPB5OhSs68Y8= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 33 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151225 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:46797 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > I have a new Dell Latitude D620 laptop. I have everything, including Emacs, > installed identically to the way I had it on my old machine. However, the > key sequences `C-M-right', `C-M-left', `C-M-up', and `C-M-down' are > apparently not being sent to Emacs from the keyboard of the new machine. > > In emacs -Q (it doesn't matter which Emacs version), `C-h k' followed by > using `C-M-right' still waits for me to hit a key - the `C-M-right' is not > seen by Emacs at all. Opening a dribble file shows the same thing: > `C-M-right' key sequences are not recorded. > > I've looked through the Emacs doc. I've tried to google for something about > this, but I haven't found anything. Anyone know what's going on and how to > fix it? Thanks. > Are you running under X? If so, what window manager are you using? I'm wondering if it is either a modmap issue or if your window manager might be stealing the keys and not passing them on to emacs. If your running under X, are you running from within an XTerm or 'native' X Toolkit/GTK? as I've seen xterms have similar issues as well. The fact the keystrokes are not showing up in a dribble file makes me think they are not getting passed to emacs at all and therefore the problem isn't actually emacs. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au